来源 | 学术志、中国青年报
编辑 | 学术君
今天凌晨,中国免疫学家曹雪涛院士在同行评议网站“pubpeer”发文,回应了学者伊丽莎白·比克(Elisabeth Bik)对他部分论文的质询。
据中国青年报客户端报道,11月14日起,伊丽莎白在该网站指出,以曹雪涛为通讯作者的多篇论文可能出现了图像造假问题。
曹雪涛现任南开大学校长,是著名的免疫学家。此事引起了巨大关注。
这些论文涉及曹雪涛及其同事在医学免疫学国家重点实验室和第二军医大学免疫学研究所所做的部分研究工作。他在回应里首先对这位质疑者表示了感谢。“我感谢您对我们工作的兴趣,以及您对保护科学记录准确性和科研诚信的贡献——它们对我一直都是最重要的。”
曹雪涛表示,收到质询后,他已将此事列为“最高优先事项”,立即采取措施调查,仔细检查了手稿、原始数据和实验室记录。如果调查中发现对已发表记录的最高精度造成影响的任何风险,他们将立即与论文相关期刊编辑部合作。
在回应中,曹雪涛还表示,对这些研究的分析仍在进行中。基于截至目前的分析,以及从同事和同行那里收到的补充反馈,他希望补充一点——“我仍然对这些论文中得出的科学结论的有效性、牢靠性以及研究的可重复性,充满信心。”
曹雪涛说,无论如何,在监管和实验室领导方面,没有任何借口出现失误。“您提出的关切再次提醒我,作为导师、主管和实验室的领导者,我的角色和责任有多重要,以及我可能已经出现了哪些不足。因此,我感到心情非常沉重,对我现在和以前的学生、工作人员和同事、同行和学术共同体感到极其抱歉。对于我的任何失察及由此带来的不便,我深表歉意。”
他还说,此事对自己来说是一次宝贵的学习机会,促使自己不仅要在推动科学发展方面,而且要在维护科学的准确性和完整性方面做得更好。
曹雪涛回应原文如下:
Dear Dr. Bik,
I’m writing to you in response to recent inquiries you posted with regard to mentioned studies conducted at the National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology and Institute of Immunology at the Second Military Medical University, with me being the corresponding author.
I appreciate your interest in our work and your commitment to protecting the accuracy of scientific records and the integrity of research pursuit. They are of utmost importance to me all along as well. Upon being notified of your inquiries, I have made them our highest priority and immediately took steps to look into the concerns you raised with the team and collaborators and carefully re-examined our manuscripts and raw data and lab records. We’ll work with the relevant journal editorial office(s) immediately if our investigation indicates any risk to the highest degree of accuracy of the published records.
Based on our analyses up to this point (still ongoing) and additional feedback we received from colleagues and peers, I would like to add that I remain confident about the validity and strength of the scientific conclusions made in those publications and our work’s reproducibility. Nevertheless, there is no excuse for any lapse in supervision or laboratory leadership and the concerns you raised serve as a fresh reminder to me just how important my role and responsibility are as mentor, supervisor, and lab leader; and how I might have fallen short. I feel therefore very heavy-hearted and tremendously sorry, to my current and former students, my staff and colleagues, my peers, and the larger community. I most sincerely apologize for any oversight on my part and any inconvenience it might have caused. I’ll use this as an invaluable learning opportunity to do better not only in advancing science, but also in safeguarding the accuracy and integrity of science.
Yours sincerely,
Xuetao Cao
此前回顾
南开大学校长曹雪涛被曝论文造假
本文来源:学术志、中国青年报
转载本文请联系原作者获取授权,同时请注明本文来源。
如果不想错过每日精彩
一定要星标置顶哟~ ▼
后台回复关键词:福利
学术君精选
▼ 点击「阅读原文」,获取更多免费资源
本篇文章来源于微信公众号: 学术资源大全
相关文章
版权声明:
本网站(网站地址)刊载的所有内容,包括文字、图片、音频、视频、软件、程序、以及网页版式设计等均在网上搜集。
访问者可将本网站提供的内容或服务用于个人学习、研究或欣赏,以及其他非商业性或非盈利性用途,但同时应遵守著作权法及其他相关法律的规定,不得侵犯本网站及相关权利人的合法权利。除此以外,将本网站任何内容或服务用于其他用途时,须征得本网站及相关权利人的书面许可,并支付报酬。
本网站内容原作者如不愿意在本网站刊登内容,请及时通知本站,予以删除。