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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Why not?

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Nobody trusts the scientific integrity of China.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Everyone does actually. No one trusts the scientific integrity of many western countries because they publish ideogically driven rubbish and call it 'science'. I think you're confusing the two.

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Everyone does actually

You mean laypeople?

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No scientists. The papers being cited in the article are cited by other scientists all over the world. Apparently they didn't get the message that you're not supposed to trust the 'scientific integrity' of Chinese research.

[–]AidsVictim69 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Chinese researchers are notorious in the academic community for falsifying data and simple "most cited" metric doesn't say anything about the integrity of those papers (for instance if it's a bunch of shitty research papers citing other shitty papers then the citation index climbs without any consideration of quality).

But it doesn't really matter because the trajectory of the West is downwards anyway.