ICR doctoral student, Rouyun Bia, quoted in the New York Times on scientific fraud and intellectual production.

May 15, 2006
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In a front page article describing the downfall of Chen Jin, one of China's premier computer scientists, ICR doctoral student Ruoyun Bai described how the movement of US trained scholars back to China may foster an environment of great expectations.

Bai's contribution to the article is as follows:

"There's now a national competition going on in China, and there are very high expectations on scholars returning from the West," said Bai Ruoyun, a media specialist from China who is now a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "They're paid very handsome salaries and given lots of incentives to achieve. And in return, these scholars are expected to produce some concrete results."

Chen reported in 2003 of having made a major breakthrough in computer chip design with his "Hanxin" - a digital signal processing chip. Seen as a breakthrough with considerable economic impact, the claim made Chen a national hero. This past Friday the Chinese government released a statement saying the work was fraud.