ShamelessnessShouldntBeAnyonesNature──AnOpenLettertoNature(PartXXIX).PDFVIP

Shamelessness Shouldn’t Be Anyone’s Nature ── An Open Letter to Nature (Part XXX) Xin Ge, Ph. D. Columbia, South Carolina, USA Why Fang Shi-min Was Awarded the John Maddox Prize (V): Why Was Albert Yuan Invited to Nominate Fang? 【Contents 】 1. The Mysterious Relationship between Fang and Yuan (1) Friendship between Natural Enemies (2) A Person with a Foot in Both Camps 2. GMO: The Unbreakable Tie between Fang and Yuan (1) Promotion at any Cost (2) For the Sake of Money (3) The Business Partner 3. Yuan’s Mysterious Foreign Connections (1) An American Citizen (2) A British Agent (3) Comrade Yuan Found his Party 4. Making Sense of Sense About Science 5. Concluding Remarks Notes 1 On Oct. 16, 2012, Yuan posted the following message on his microblog: “Just received a piece of good news about China’s science. Although it is not in the same rank as Nobel Prize, it is worthy of congratulation nonetheless. Because the organizer has asked for secrecy, I’ll announce the specifics after a while. Congratulate somebody!”[1] On Nov. 7, 2012, the first message Yuan posted on his microblog was the following: “The secret is out: Congratulate Fang Zhouzi on receiving this year’s John Maddox Scientific Contribution Prize. The Prize [winners] were jointly selected by journal Nature and a British science popularization organization Sense About Science. I recommended Old Fang, and he eventually shared the Prize with another person.”[2] One day later, Mr. Yuan posted his recommendation letter on his blog, with a brief note, in which he wrote: “The organizer asked me to recommend a candidate, and I recommended Fang Zhouzi.”[3] According to the editorial by Nature, t