Academician is a supreme academic title and honor, the number of places is scarce, and only 113 people will be elected in the 2023 academician co-optation, including 59 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 74 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, while there are as many as 1238 candidates, what is this concept?
In fact, those candidates are also very good academically, unfortunately, less than 10% of them were elected in the end, which shows that becoming an academician is not only a recognition of scientific research and contributions, but also a recognition of personal quality, therefore, academicians have a huge influence in the academic community and society.
But there has always been a strange phenomenon on the Internet, the evaluation of academicians is not very friendly, and they ask at every turn:
What does he contribute?
In fact, there are strict standards for the selection of academicians, and it is generally difficult for scientists without outstanding contributions to be elected academicians, and many people will not consult the information before asking questions.
Recently, a large number of small essays have appeared on the Internet about "Academician Zhong Nanshan's live broadcast with goods", pointing out that it is not appropriate for Academician Zhong Nanshan to bring goods live broadcast, sitting there and moving his mouth, you can earn ordinary people a lifetime of money in a few hours.
Driven by the small composition, many netizens were indignant and criticized Zhong Lao, and they couldn't bear to look at it directly, and some comments had no way to share, and their voices were very sharp.
But is what these overwhelming little essays say true?
Frankly speaking, I don't believe it, because some time ago, the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued new regulations, requiring academicians not to freely publish academic opinions unrelated to their own fields, and prohibiting participation in all kinds of situational activities, the Academy of Engineering also has similar regulations, in this case, will Academician Zhong Nanshan ignore the regulations to live broadcast and bring goods?
My intuition tells me that there must be something wrong with these small essays, and by looking up past news materials, I found that this is Academician Zhong Nanshan in April 2020, that is, during the new crown epidemic, and the chairman of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in the live broadcast room to help farmers.
At that time, the pictures reported by the media were exactly the same as the pictures in the above-mentioned small essays, the background of the live broadcast, and the clothes of the parties were exactly the same, that is to say, those small essays were actually frying cold rice, and continued to hype up the topics of the parties through past news events.
Judging from the reports at the time, Academician Zhong Nanshan and the chairman of Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. brought "prickly pear products" in the live broadcast, and in the live broadcast, Academician Zhong Nanshan talked about the importance of VC to human health from a medical point of view.
Although the direct beneficiary of the goods is Guangyao, which on the one hand brings online and offline sales, and on the other hand, it also plays a role in publicity, but the indirect beneficiaries are farmers who grow prickly pear.
Objectively speaking, this live broadcast is a commercial behavior to a certain extent, but at the same time, it also has a positive significance of helping farmers, expanding the publicity through the influence of celebrities and experts, promoting industrial development, and increasing farmers' income.
The most important thing is that at that time, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering had not explicitly banned academicians' social activities, and it was estimated that it would be difficult for Academician Zhong Nanshan to do it in the face of human sophistication.
I don't know if you still remember a previous video of Academician Zhong Nanshan, there was still a lot of social work in the interview, and the staff of the unit kept arranging Academician Zhong Nanshan to participate in various activities and meetings, which made him feel very distressed and bored, but finally participated.
When it comes to the level of academicians, in fact, a lot of work and entertainment are involuntary, and if you resolutely do not participate, you will seem out of place, but if you participate, you will inevitably be criticized.
For example, a few days ago, Academician Pan Jianwei, vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China, took the initiative to resign from the position of chairman of the Anhui Committee of the Jiusan Society, and if he has no energy to work part-time, he will not do it, so that everyone is good, and academicians can concentrate on scientific research.
So in retrospect, why do some people continue to hype up the previous events, and deliberately portray these news as if they are happening now?
There is a netizen who said it very well, these people want to "do things", through a variety of rhythmic small compositions, confuse the public, so that ordinary netizens who do not know the truth are dissatisfied with our first-class scientists, and then create all kinds of negative evaluations on the Internet, destroying the harmonious atmosphere of scientific research, the motive behind it is worth vigilance.
We advocate that academicians deeply cultivate their own professional research fields, and it is not recommended to participate too much in social activities, but we should also fully consider the scarcity of academician resources, their honor often represents the interests of the unit, and many times they are also very difficult to do, and they need to work hard to solve the problem fundamentally.
Rational criticism is understandable, but it does not mean that it can be deliberately smeared by fabricating and hyping up old news, otherwise it is difficult not to doubt its motives, don't you think?
(This article does not intend to whitewash anyone, I just hope that there will be more rational voices on the Internet, and they will not be led to the rhythm.) ）