China News Service Client, Beijing, July 16 (Lang Lang) In the movie "Charlotte Troubles", Charlotte's classmate Yuan Hua won the first prize in the district composition competition for a piece of "My Father of the Mayor". Become a "fighting father" terrier often quoted by netizens, and such a plot recently staged a realistic version-"my researcher father".


  On the afternoon of the 16th, the "Prodigy won the Science and Technology Award for researching cancer", which had been raging in the recent public opinion field, finally had investigation and handling results.

  The Yunnan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Innovation Contest Competition Organizing Committee announced that the “Study on the function and mechanism of C10orf67 in the development of colorectal cancer” of the sixth grade primary school student in Kunming, Yunnan, violated the competition rules. “The project research report must be written by the author himself "Provisions. According to the rules of the contest, it was decided to withdraw the third prize of the 34th National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Contest of the project, and withdraw the medals and certificates.

  Both Chen Moushi's parents are researchers at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research field is the same as Chen Moushi's award-winning subject. From his father's apology to the decision of the organizing committee, it is clear that the "genius boy" Chen Moushi's award is ultimately the result of "fighting the father".

  A sixth-grade child also won an award for researching cancer. The reason it stirred public opinion was that it exceeded most people's cognition and even violated the law.

  In the eyes of biological experts, this award-winning research, undergraduates of relevant professional research need to be trained for more than half a year to operate, and the experimental results may not be as perfect as this kid.

  And through the experimental records of Chen Moushi, he found that at the beginning of the subject, he didn’t even know what the “gene” was. After learning through the Internet, it took only 5 days, and he knew nothing about it. The degree of expression level. This is contrary to ordinary people's cognition, and even more contrary to the laws of scientific research.

  The conduct of a scientific research requires not only the accumulation of previous experience, but also the researcher's own deep professional knowledge and extensive professional practice. And Chen Moushi, who doesn’t even know what genes are, can achieve the above results, it is difficult for us to not link his parents who are engaged in the same research to this matter. Chen Moushi really stands directly on the "giant shoulder" .

  In addition to Chen Moushi, the "Anti-tumor Experimental Research on Tea Polyphenols" completed by two primary school students in the 33rd National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Contest was also accused of exceeding the scope of primary school students, and has now entered the investigation stage.

  After a series of incredible child prodigies were exposed, some netizens lamented: "After'My dad is Li Gang','technical fight dad' is rising."

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  Right now, the child's father apologized, and the organizing committee also withdrew the award. Is this the case? Who needs to take responsibility for this matter? Who needs to reflect on such phenomena?

  "Wang Zi Cheng Long" and "Wang Nu Cheng Cheng Feng" are one of the reasons for this phenomenon. In China, educating children is an "arms race", and "can't lose at the starting line" is the educational concept of most Chinese families. As this line becomes more advanced, parents' educational anxiety also advances.

  Chen Moushi's participation in this competition may be relatively niche, and the "Olympic Games" that many Chinese children have played with are more reflective of the problem.

  In the eyes of Chinese parents, a variety of competition awards are a must-have item. From primary school to university, the more awards you get, the more chips you have to enter a good school. Based on this general mentality of Chinese parents, various awards with various titles are also gaining market.

  In addition to taking a certificate and receiving an award, in order to allow children to stand out among their peers, any way to improve competitiveness must be tried.

  "Reading tens of thousands of words in 5 minutes" "Suspension spoon"... These seemingly ridiculous news are behind countless anxious parents. When the child's growth cannot meet the expectations, the parents will go into battle personally, with the money to pay, the right to use the power, and the technology to make the technology, trying to put a variety of auras on the children, and some children's resumes are printed Come out even higher than myself.

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  Is this for the growth of the child, or to satisfy the vanity of the parents?

  Compared with the anxiety of Chinese parents, this incident has exposed the unhealthy spirits in the academic field and it should be more vigilant. The researcher's parents won the prize for the child. In the final analysis, the other aspect of this kind of seedling growth is actually power rent-seeking, and this is also a hotbed for the birth of "technical fighting fathers."

  In addition, the research of Chen Moushi beyond his ability has caused such great attention because it challenges the socially sensitive nerve of "education equity". The growth of a child is not a transcript of the parents, and the use of immoral methods to obtain benefits, even if the short-term benefits are obtained, in the long run it is endless.

  If the contest does not withdraw the award, Chen Shishi, who is in the cognitive world, will think that academic research is no more than that, and he loses his respect for knowledge and scientific research results. It is not known that behind a scientific research achievement, it may be the hardship of researchers who have been on the cold bench for several years. Children who are in the formation stage of the Three Views will also become more dependent on the sweetness of "backing on the big tree to enjoy the cool".

  In a nationwide science and technology innovation competition, chaos and even jokes about fathers and sons winning prizes, it is inevitable that people are stunned: What is the fairness of the selection? What is the credibility of the contest?

  More importantly, this approach not only damages individual academic ethics, but also pollutes the entire scientific and technological environment and the educational environment. Behind the laughter is the heart of many scientific researchers, and it hurts Chinese parents’ confidence and fairness in education. look forward to.

  Hope that there will be no such "prodigy", and that such "supernatural powers" have nowhere to go.