The Academic Standards Committee of Fudan University determined that Wang Zhengmin’s application for thesis materials during the application process for academicianship of the Academy of Sciences was “not seeking truth from facts.”
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"One manuscript submitted to multiple submissions" calculated to double academic achievements
Wang Zhengmin is a doctor at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, 2005 He was co-opted as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
When Wang Zhengmin applied for academicianship, Wang Yucheng was his secretary and witnessed the entire process of Wang Zhengmin falsifying his papers in order to become an academician. Wang Yucheng said that at least 57 of the 271 papers listed in Wang Zhengmin's "Appendix Materials to the Catalog of Works of Candidates for Co-option of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" are suspected of fraud. One of the methods he used to falsify his papers was to split the contents of his monograph "Ear Microsurgery" into 14 papers and publish them in the "Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology".
Wang Yucheng, who is currently a physician at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Fudan University, said: "The content of his magazine and his book are exactly the same. The first chapter is Deafness Surgery. His paper is also called Deafness Surgery. It was published Later, he included it as a formal research paper when applying for academicianship in 2005, so there were 14 papers." Wang Yucheng said that the second method of Wang Zhengmin's paper fraud was to "submit one draft to multiple papers. "After a paper is published in a domestic journal and then published in a foreign journal, it is treated as two academic papers when calculating academic results.
Academic results actually plagiarized other people’s works
The third method used by Wang Zhengmin to falsify his paper was to include non-research articles published in the "Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, and Otolaryngology", including " Essays in columns such as "Publication Words", "Experts' Written Talks", and "How I Do It" are also included in the "Appendix Materials to the Catalog of Works of Candidates for Co-option of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences".
In the materials reported by Wang Yucheng that Wang Zhengmin was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences based on illegal academic achievements, there is also one of the most important accusations about plagiarism. The person who was plagiarized is Wang Zhengmin’s mentor, who is known as the "ear neuroscience" Ugo Fess, professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, "the father of the
Wang Yucheng told reporters that Wang Zhengmin's first monograph "Ear Microsurgery" contains more than 100 hand-drawn drawings of ear surgery, which are the same as the pictures in Professor Ugo Feixu's monograph, but they are not The source of the picture is not indicated, and Professor Fei Xu's monograph is not mentioned in the references in the book.
Wang Zhengmin's other two monographs "Skull Base Surgery" and "Wang Zhengmin's Ear Microsurgery" also contain similar plagiarism. In 2003, Wang Zhengmin began writing his third monograph "Wang Zhengmin's Ear Microsurgery". Wang Yucheng participated in the editing work and witnessed the entire process of Wang Zhengmin's plagiarism.
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“Cloning” foreign prototypes received huge funding for national patents
The Academic Standards Committee of Fudan University determined that Wang Zhengmin had applied for a paper in the process of applying for academician of the Academy of Sciences. The material has "unrealistic" behavior. However, as the reporter's investigation deepened, more secrets hidden behind Academician Wang Zhengmin were revealed. In 2003, a technical team led by Wang Zhengmin successfully developed a domestic cochlear implant with completely independent intellectual property rights. So how was this cochlear implant developed?
Cochlear implant is a new technology for deaf rehabilitation that has developed rapidly in recent years. After implantation, patients with severe hearing and speech impairment can use hearing and speech like normal people after undergoing speech rehabilitation training. Communicate with people and integrate into society. In 1982, Australia's Collier 22 cochlear implant was approved by the FDA, becoming the world's first multi-channel cochlear device. As one of the first doctors to perform cochlear implant surgeries in China, Wang Zhengmin was the first to propose the development of China's cochlear implants.
So Wang Zhengmin approached Fan Baohua from the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Fudan University and asked him to find a way to obtain a cochlear implant prototype from the Australian Collier Company.
As one of the main R&D personnel of Wang Zhengmin’s R&D team and a senior engineer at the Shanghai Institute of Hearing Medicine, Shen Yihu is specifically responsible for cracking the chips of foreign cochlear implant prototypes. The developer admitted that their cochlear implant was not truly independently developed, but imitated the product of the Australian Collier company.
Shen Yihu said that by extracting, analyzing, and sorting out the internal circuits of the Collier cochlear implant chip, they studied their chip technology principles, design ideas, process manufacturing and structural mechanisms, and then followed suit. It took nearly two years to develop its own chip. But in order to avoid trouble from Collier's company, they made changes in appearance and wiring.
In 1997, the "multi-channel programmable cochlear implant" developed by Wang Zhengmin's team won the national invention patent. In 2004, Fudan University Affiliated Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital signed a technology agreement with Shanghai Lishengte Medical Technology Co., Ltd. Transfer contract to industrialize domestic cochlear implants. During the investigation, the reporter found that in order to obtain national, provincial and municipal scientific research funds, Wang Zhengmin’s R&D team and Shanghai Lishengte Medical Technology Co., Ltd. applied for projects to relevant departments under various names.
The reporter learned that in 2012 alone, they won two national-level projects and received more than 40 million special funds. Among them, the "Domestic Cochlear Implant and Clinical Technology Research Project" won the National Ministry of Health's special scientific research The funding is 21.71 million yuan; the "Shanghai Lisheng Cochlear Implant Construction Project" received a funding of 21.38 million yuan from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.