Tibet and Xinjiang are literally autonomous ethnic regions that are under local governments of Tibetans and Uighurs, respectively. No one has any concerns about the poor donating plasma or Canadians pushing euthanasia to the poor, but you're gonna just smear scientists because of Westoid propaganda?
Tibet and Xinjiang are part of China because they want to. Can we say the same about Texas?
Free Tibet into the hands of CIA tool Dalai “Suck My Tongue” Lama.
OK, but what if every opinion I have about Tibet has been formed by that one Brad Pitt movie where he plays a literal SS officer?
This is the real issue I have with all Chinese reporting: by government policy, they have proportional ethnic representation (and often overrepresent minorities in government in autonomous regions). Yes, it's still technically the CPC, but it's like saying that the BC NDP and federal NDP are the same party with the same interests.
Who are you adressing? The guardian article refers to retractions in multiple journals.
Also, people are worried about socioeconomic factors involved in plasma donation and euthanasia. As they should be. These are always important to be aware of and to actively try to preempt.
These things don't absolve the retracted papers from criticism. Nor do they exclude any other research from close scrutinyThe point is this isn't "criticism". It's just a journal trying to legitimize western propaganda and slow down China's inevitable rise to the top in scientific research, like they're trying to do in other fields like computing. This article doesn't admit it outright, but the last paragraph shows they seem to understand that quite well.
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" Several of the researchers are associated with public security authorities in China, a fact that “voids any notion of free informed consent”, said Yves Moreau, a professor of engineering at the University of Leuven, in Belgium, who focuses on DNA analysis. Moreau first raised concerns about the papers with Hart, MGGM’s editor-in-chief, in March 2021.
One retracted paper studies the DNA of Tibetans in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, using blood samples collected from 120 individuals. The article stated that “all individuals provided written informed consent” and that work was approved by the Fudan University ethics committee.
But the retraction notice published on Monday stated that an ethical review “uncovered inconsistencies between the consent documentation and the research reported; the documentation was not sufficiently detailed to resolve the concerns raised”. "
Weird. So they had written consent forms for the blood samples, but the forms weren't detailed enough(?), and anyway you can't trust anyone associated with the Chinese gvmt? Is that what they're saying?
This seems like weird reactionary virtue signalling.
Researchers used samples from populations deemed by experts and campaigners to be vulnerable to exploitation, including Uyghurs and Tibetans
By this logic, said genetics journal should retract all papers which used samples from black people in the United States and Europe.
So basically, you can't do research on Uyghurs and Tibetans because they're a vulnerable minority. 😅
Only han chinese studies are aceptable to the west.
