As Jinhai Gao says: (February 19, 2014 at 11:23 AM)
“a ferocious war against one of the “science cops”, Fang Shimin.”
Just check what the so-called “science cop” did in his own first-authored “scientific publication” , the only first authored publication in his life time. (http://www.jbc.org/content/271/20/11703.ful)
As the figure of western results shows in his paper, the critical results the protein-protein interaction in this paper (also as his PhD. thesis) were combined from 5 different experiments by pasting them together, which is absolutely not acceptable by any scientific standard for conclusion of, or publishing the results. Fang has since no any publishing anymore. He quitted his academic career in USA after 10 years PhD and PostDoc experience and went back to China working as a self-employed “scientific cop” ironically with non-scientific standard. The best example as he recently did in the MDPI issue. He claimed in his web site ” international authority Jeffrey Beall did not list MDPI as a bad publisher” a few days ago when someone in web indicated MDPI showing strange activities in business. But when Jeff put MDPI in questionable publisher list, he then defended MDPI in his web “Mr. Beall is just a librarian and no any organization/authority cares what he said”) .
I would say Fang and Lin have very similar experience in life, both failed in science but good in others. It was said that Mr. Fang receives $500/monthly contribution from MDPI for his “scientific cop foundation” and unknown amount of commercial fee from showing MPDI in his cop web site (www.xys.org). MDPI also contributes thousands dollars of “scientific spirits award” yearly to Fang’s funds, All awards went to Fangs personal friends. Clearly, these funding might be paid as Lin’s protection fee for Lin’s money gathering behaviors.
I support Beall’s activity in clearing the environment of real science.
