On May 15th, the National Health Commission announced the investigation results of the Dong Mouying incident, confirming that Dong Mouying had falsified her academic record in the Peking Union Medical College 4+4 medical doctoral program and plagiarized her graduation thesis, leading to the revocation of her academic degree and medical qualification.
And then, nothing???
A simple truth:
If it were me, I fabricated a set of documents claiming I was an undergraduate in finance from Yale University, with excellent grades in a series of courses such as physics, chemistry, and biology, and now I’m applying to Peking Union Medical College to study for a 4+4 medical doctorate, do you think I could be admitted?
First of all, Peking Union Medical College only recruits 30 elite students from the top 50 universities worldwide each year, and the number of applicants is probably no more than 1,000, so the workload of document review is not large. When students apply, they submit their academic and degree certificates, as well as transcripts. Sending an email to the school to verify them, I, as an ordinary person, would immediately be exposed.
So, how did Ms. Dong, who falsified her academic records, pass the application document review? Who let her through?
Then, even if the admissions office of Peking Union Medical College is kind and naive, and never thought that bad people would falsify, and did not verify the authenticity of the grades I submitted, there should always be an interview环节, right?
An undergraduate in economics, who has never studied or failed courses such as university physics, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry, can he or she talk about the Krebs cycle with the interviewing professors, and can he or she read the chemical formula of metformin?
Whether the grades are good or not, after all, it needs a special exam to measure, but as an ordinary person who has not studied organic chemistry, he or she will be kicked out of the professional interview after talking for 3 sentences.
So, how did Ms. Dong, who relied entirely on falsification for 16 credits in 4 basic courses, pass the interview? Who interviewed her?
Furthermore, assuming I am exceptionally talented and have superb on-the-spot adaptability, and I managed to pass the interview with my eloquence and混进了协和. Then, during the 4 years of my doctoral studies at Peking Union Medical College, I always have to do experiments and take exams, right?
Without training in basic subject knowledge and experimental skills such as inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry, not knowing how to load the sample into a chromatography column, and not knowing where to drop the sample when running a gel electrophoresis, as an ordinary person, I would definitely not be able to keep up with the courses, complete the assignments, and pass the exams in 4 years at Peking Union Medical College.
So, how did Ms. Dong complete her 4 years of study at China’s top medical school? Didn’t her supervisor ever notice anything unusual?
Okay, assuming that after I enrolled, I deeply reflected on myself and made up for those basic courses in science and engineering during my spare time, or I cheated and plagiarized in the usual exams, and I managed to get through these 4 years, and I could still be commended by the dean at the graduation ceremony. But what about my graduation thesis?
A doctoral student’s graduation thesis should either be a highly original invention or design, or it should advance the boundaries of human knowledge a little bit in a certain niche field. In short, it must be a serious research project.
Of course, I can plagiarize patents that others have published to piece together a thesis, or let my aunt, who is a professor, take her students’ papers and give them to me, but the doctoral graduation thesis also needs to be sent for external review, and it also needs to be blindly evaluated, and most importantly, it will be checked for plagiarism.
As an ordinary person, submitting a doctoral graduation thesis with a plagiarism rate of more than 20% and a large number of plagiarized published patent articles is no different from directly giving up the degree…
So, how did Ms. Dong’s plagiarized graduation thesis pass the numerous reviews and obtain a doctoral degree? Who was in charge of reviewing the thesis? Who was in charge of the thesis plagiarism check?
An ordinary person who is not good at learning, if he or she wants to pass so many hurdles just by falsifying on his or her own, and obtain a doctoral degree at China’s top medical school, it is completely, absolutely, and definitely impossible.
In the application material review, interview, daily exams, graduation thesis review, and defense环节, there must be at least one leader with enough influence and dozens of teaching staff who are aware of and cooperate, in order to protect Ms. Dong all the way to graduation with a doctorate.
It is absolutely impossible for Ms. Dong and her family to rely on falsification alone to deceive a medical doctorate from Peking Union Medical College. There is definitely intervention from leading cadres, and there is definitely dereliction of duty by the executors.
As a mature science popularization blogger, I rarely use such absolute statements, because it is easy to be sued for infringement. But this time I must use it, whether I am sued or arrested, I admit it.
I can tolerate some people born with a silver spoon in their mouths, playing some privileges, taking a shortcut, and deceiving an ordinary degree. But if you deceive a medical doctorate and still want to perform surgery on patients on the front line, I can’t stand it!
Moreover, to be honest, although Ms. Dong’s family has some power and capital, they are not considered high-ranking officials or wealthy people in Beijing.
With the background of the Dong family, they can use behind-the-scenes operations to turn a person who is not good at learning into a medical doctorate from Peking Union Medical College 4+4, and you tell me that only she is doing this among the more than 200 students?
That’s a huge joke!
Share some basic common sense:
Since the person who falsified the information has been found out, it should not be difficult to find those who protected and assisted in the falsification.
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