According to Yan, the former deputy director of the Fuel Department of the Ministry of Materials and Equipment, he introduced his so-called invention of "changing water into oil" from 1984, and the only basis was that he could improvise. Show again! All of Wang Hongcheng's performances are not performed according to strict scientific conditions. The performance was decided by Wang and improvised, which produced the audience effect of "seeing is believing". At the beginning of 1984, a vice governor of Heilongjiang Province contacted him to test the reliability of his claim of changing water into oil, but Wang refused. In May, the central leaders personally visited and watched Wang's performance in Harbin. /kloc-in the winter of 0/985, Wang Hongcheng went from Daqing to Beijing, Hebei, Zhejiang and Shanghai to perform, making promises and cheating money. /kloc-in the winter of 0/986, an executive deputy director of the state planning commission was entrusted by the central leading comrades to catch this matter. According to Wang Hongcheng's request, he allocated 600,000 yuan at a time to give Wang Hongcheng a luxury Crown car. 1June, 987, Wang Hongcheng once again negotiated with the leaders of the State Planning Commission and put forward new conditions that are important, famous and demanding money. After asking for instructions, I am prepared to promise to set up the National New Energy Development Bureau (deputy ministerial level) and let Wang be the director; I made an exception and obtained the invention certificate and patent certificate for Wang. After 1987, Wang signed two agreements with the State Planning Commission and the head of the Beijing Military Region respectively, but none of them were implemented. 1987 According to the requirements, the State Planning Commission allocated 600,000 yuan to produce ace fuel in Dingzhou Shengli Bus Factory, Hebei Province, and half of the production line has been completed. With this money, Wang Hongcheng bought two houses in Harbin and took the van and motorcycle from the factory. (Yan, "Changing Water into Oil and Asking for Money from Important Officials and Celebrities", see Exposing the Big Deception of Changing Water into Oil, Sun Yat-sen University Press, 1996, pp. 37-40).
1992, the company of the commission of science, technology and industry for national defense cooperated with Wang, and asked the company to wear casual clothes and fill in the title of "researcher" on the work permit. The company got nothing, but Wang served as a senior official in the society and was called a senior researcher in the commission of science, technology and industry for national defense. 1995, 4 1 members of the Chinese people's political consultative conference of science and technology jointly called for investigating the investment situation of "changing water into oil" and its destructive consequences on economic construction, and since then, "the fifth greatest invention of China" has gone bankrupt. According to the Science and Technology Daily, the direct economic loss of changing water into oil is as high as 400 million yuan.
Someone summed up the trilogy of "Successful Deception" for Wang Hongcheng: (1) Make a wish and perform; (2) requesting material sponsorship; (3) Run as soon as it is put into production. (According to Harbin Railway News, see Guo Zhengyi's "Exposing the Big Fraud of Changing Water into Oil" involving 1 100 million yuan, Sun Yat-sen University Press, 1996, p. 149- 150) Because "changing water into oil" itself is fake, all the previous tricks are false. In the final analysis, it is the country, not the people, that suffers and is cheated.
People can't help asking, how can anyone believe such a fantastic scam, and how can anyone invest huge sums of money to follow the development of Wang Hongcheng? Things may be explained by dialectics. The more bizarre the incident, the less people dare to deny it easily. Ordinary people will say, will there be falsehood in the newspaper? Scientists watched Wang's performance, from phenomena and accusations to scientific facts. What can people say when scientists stand up to defend it? Actually, what you see may not be true. How many people in the audience can see through the magic show? Believe if you can't see through it, chopping the living, throwing playing cards and shooting beautiful women are all true!
The rise of Wang Hongcheng is due to the help of some naive scientists, but they have also been cheated. But because people trust scientists easily, it is more deceptive for scientists to stand up and promote Wang Hongcheng. Harbin Institute of Technology played a disgraceful role. Harbin Institute of Technology (a well-known university in China) organized the appraisal meeting of changing water into oil. A group of experts including doctoral supervisors from Harbin Institute of Technology and Jilin University participated in the appraisal. The president of Harbin Institute of Technology and the secretary of the Party Committee wrote to the central leadership twice, explaining very sincerely that changing water into oil is credible, asking the central leadership to pay close attention to this matter, hoping to establish a project and organize research as soon as possible, so that this great invention can benefit the people. This letter was forwarded to the Science and Technology Committee, which sent a reply to Harbin Institute of Technology, explaining that Wang had refused to make an appraisal before and thought it inappropriate to discuss it again. Teacher, preach and teach. The professor firmly believes that water will turn into oil. What about the student union? Doctoral tutors can defend changing water into oil, and students who are instructed may defend astrology. Changing water into oil has left a lot of thoughts, one of which is to enhance the ability of scientific discrimination. "Performance" is never equal to "scientific experiment", let alone a substitute for scientific experiment. The establishment of scientific facts and theories mainly depends on empirical facts, rather than the false experience of a person or a group of people. Engels pointed out that it is not enough to rely solely on experience. Without theoretical thinking (dialectical thinking), even the two most obvious things cannot be linked, and superficial empiricism is a shortcut to degeneration. Engels pointed out that famous thinkers and scientists such as Bacon (the cry of modern science), Newton (summing up the three laws of motion and discovering the law of gravity), Wallace (establishing the theory of evolution at the same time as Darwin) and crookes (the discoverer of thallium) made important contributions to science, but later they strayed into the quagmire and became apologists and practitioners of pseudoscience. Engels said: "It is not transcendental inevitability that proves the existence of God, but the empirical observation of Mr. Wallace and Mr. crookes. If we believe in Mr. crookes's observation of spectral analysis or Wallace's rich discovery of Malay zoology, then people ask us to believe in the experience and discovery of these two scientists in deification. "