Liu Mouyang's invention device is highly consistent with the appearance of his parent's research results. Photo/ Screenshot of the surging news report
The son's "invention" is highly similar to the patented work of the father's team?
Recently, Liu Jianguo, president of the Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the "Hefei Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences"), was exposed to using the scientific research achievements of himself and the laboratory team for his son to win the award and further education.
According to the surging news, in 2015, Liu Mouyang, the son of Liu Jianguo, won a number of provincial and national awards for inventing the "portable smog pollution gas rapid identification and detection device" (also known as the "portable multi-component gas ultraviolet field analyzer"), and was therefore admitted to Hefei Key High School 168 Middle School.
However, in terms of name, working principle and appearance, the invention is highly consistent with a scientific research achievement of the Anhui Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Hefei Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. At that time, Liu Jianguo served as the deputy director of the institute and the main completer of the project to which the scientific research results belonged.
Therefore, Liu Mouyang's "invention" is also suspected of using the scientific research results of his father's team to facilitate further education.
In 2018, Liu Mouyang, who was in the first grade of Hefei 168 Middle School, once again won the third prize of the 33rd National Youth Innovation Achievement Competition, the first prize of the 2018 Anhui Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition, the 16th Youth Science and Technology Innovation Mayor Award, and the "Chongqing University of Technology Special Award" and "Zhongming Science and Technology Special Award" for inventing the "Drunk Driving Safety Laser Rapid Screening System".
The surging news report shows that in the "patent library" of the Hefei Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, there is also a patent called "Laser Drunk Driving Roadside Online Detection System (Patent Number 201110453189)", and the fourth inventor is Liu Jianguo. In addition, between 2012 and 2014, Liu Jianguo published several papers on laser detection of alcohol.
For the surging news previously reported that "the son's award-winning invention is highly consistent with the results of the father's research institute", on October 27, the staff of the organizing committee of the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition responded to the surging news that the investigation has been launched, and if it is true, it will be handled in accordance with the rules of the competition.
The Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued a statement on the matter of "Liu Mouyang's award-winning invention is highly similar to the results of his father's research institute". Photo/ Screenshot of the official website of hefei Institute of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Is there a "big hand holding a small hand" that needs to be thoroughly investigated？
Netizens have mixed comments on the matter. Some netizens said that this is simply a scientific and technological innovation version of "spelling daddy"; now these competitions have gone crazy, not children's competitions, but parent competitions.
Some netizens think that normal, the father is a scientist, the child follows the school, there is nothing wrong, this is like when the teacher's parents tutor their children, if this is not allowed, it is too unkind.
What needs to be recognized is that Liu Jianguo, as a parent of Liu Mouyang, is also in the field of scientific research, and has a natural convenience in guiding children to learn, and it is blameless to guide children to learn science and technology.
However, Liu Mouyang's "invention" was completed under the "guidance" of Liu Jianguo, and the meaning of this "guidance" is worth pondering. Directly writing the child's name on the team's scientific research results "changing the soup without changing the medicine", and the guidance of the child only stays at the "click dial" level, which are two different things.
If Liu Jianguo takes advantage of the convenience of scientific research to name the child's name and "feed" the child's name for his team's results, "feed" the child to "invent", so that the child can meet the standard of further education, then this is not only a disrespect for the labor of his original project research members, but also "tramples" the efforts of the participants who participate in the same competition with their children.
After all, the essence is the youth competition in which adults participate, which is a "dimensionality reduction blow" for other young participants.
Of course, at present, the matter has not yet been conclusive, and the voices of the personnel involved have not yet been fully reflected, and we cannot arbitrarily say that there must be cattiness in this. Whether Liu Mouyang used the scientific research results of his father's project, whether Liu Jianguo violated the law to help Liu Mouyang, in the final analysis, it depends on whether the operation of both sides is in line with the norms. If Liu Mouyang directly takes the scientific research results of his father Liu Jianguo's team as his original content, this is a problem. The truth of the incident still needs to be strictly investigated by the relevant departments.
The scientific research field should resist the "fight daddy" game
What needs to be clear is that the reason why this matter has caused controversy among netizens is that many people are vigilant about the "big hand holding small hand" behavior in the academic community. Such incidents are not isolated.
For example, in July 2020, the news that "primary school students made master's and doctoral scientific research results were suspected of being fake" was on the hot search, but in the end there was no public investigation results.
What needs to be seen is that the original intention of the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition is to cultivate the innovative spirit and practical ability of young people, improve the scientific and technological quality of young people, and promote the popularization and development of science and technology education. However, if the parents secretly violate the "assist", they have deviated from the original intention of the competition.
Chen Ruping of the Institute of Basic Education of the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences pointed out in 2019 that some parents participate in various competition activities at any cost for utilitarian purposes such as their children's enrollment and further education, which seriously violates the original intention and intention of the competition. This seriously affects the fairness of further education admissions. These "divine operations" may also lay the groundwork for the counterfeiting of Chinese academia.
In recent years, a number of people who have participated in this competition have revealed that some of the scientific research projects participated in the competition are fraudulent, and many scientific research topics and experimental difficulties have reached the level of master's and doctoral degrees, and are not able to be completed independently by primary and secondary school students who are busy with their studies.
When these artificial "geniuses" emerge in the public eye, the evil effects are far-reaching, not only the children who are "fed" scientific research results, but also the new generation of reserves who are truly interested in academia. This is not a small blow to China's scientific research field.
The matter is still under investigation and is unjustly self-proclaimed. In any case, the scientific research and academic field must resolutely resist the "fight daddy" game, return the stage of the youth science and technology innovation competition to the teenagers, so that the teenagers who are truly interested in academics can more confidently display their talents.
Beijing News commentator 丨 Ding Hui
Editor 丨Liu Yunyun
Intern 丨Li Zhidong
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