Primary school students have won prizes in cancer research, is there a prodigy or a "supernatural power"?
"The teachers gave me a gene called C10orf67. I searched the Internet for a gene."
In Kunming, Yunnan, a sixth-grade elementary student Chen Moumou who didn’t even know what the genes were over a year ago, entered the room to study biomedicine in just ten months and published high-quality research results "C10orf67 in colorectal cancer. "Functions and Mechanisms in Development" won the third prize in the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition. Is this a medical wizard? The Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences stated that Chen was the son of a researcher at the institute, and that his parents’ research content coincided with the award-winning results, and the Yunnan Provincial Association for Science and Technology has intervened in the investigation.
Primary school students study cancer, and their research achievements have reached the level of masters or even doctoral students. If nothing unexpected happens, this is mostly the way of "parents engage in research and sons get results". Behind the "prodigy" and "wizard", it is actually the parents with "supernatural powers".
In recent years, there have been endless patterns of spelling out dads in the education field, from choosing schools with power and money to gaining extra credit for various darkroom operations, from reading junior high school sons’ poems in core academic journals edited by their fathers, to parents’ use of internal college resources Helping her daughter to protect her from cheating... In this "arms race" where smoke is invisible, some parents use various social resources and various improper methods to help their children "overtake" in the corners and save capital for "robbing" in the future . This has formed a kind of "dimensionality-reducing blow" to those families who honestly fight for their children.
Not long ago, the star Tong Zhuo told his past college entrance exams in a live broadcast, and revealed that he used "some means" to change his previous student status into a freshman. Subsequently, his stepfather and other interference personnel were dealt with.
In detail, these events are challenging the bottom line of education equity, and also touched the public's sensitive nerves, exacerbating the education anxiety of ordinary people.
Elementary school students have won prizes in gene therapy cancer research, so that people can see that fighting academic corruption is not just about preventing plagiarism and falsification of papers, but also to curb the use of academic resources in exchange for certain hidden benefits. What is worth asking is that the organizers of the related contests cannot see through all the doubts? Have you fulfilled the responsibilities of check, audit and appraisal? Is it really confused or pretended?
The National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Contest, as the largest and highest-level youth science and technology education activity for domestic elementary and middle school students, has many projects that exceed the ability of elementary and middle school students and even many masters and doctors are exclaimed. Is this normal? ? Because they are linked to college entry, if contestants win prizes, they often get extra points in the college entrance examination. This kind of "temptation" makes many people want to get into trouble, and it is not difficult to understand. It should be a great irony that there should be an unscientific operation in the most scientific-sports competition.
In the face of fierce online public opinion, the organizers of the contest stated that they have intervened in the investigation. In fact, more than this one needs to be investigated? Can other award-winning projects stand up to scrutiny? Who should supervise the organizer? Are there loopholes in other important competitions in the basic education stage? If similar incidents are only exposed by public opinion, they will only "press the gourd to rise up." Only by taking more active actions and establishing corresponding mechanisms and regulations, and severely punishing fraud, can relevant departments maintain the fairness of the competition and procedural justice, and thus maintain the bottom line of educational equity. Yu Zhongning