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A new column on Chinese science culture from the JUN/JUL 2006 issue of Seed:

When the Chinese government recently announced plans to root out academic plagiarism and blacklist offending scholars, it was, on the surface, simply a matter of ethical standards keeping pace with economic reforms. The past few years have seen a wave of highly publicized falsification and plagiarism scandals all over the world, and Chinese scientists, under mounting pressure to publish, wer