已经有华裔人士动议啦 2012-08-06 12:02 PMReport this comment | #48586 Allon Field said: I am happy to see that Nature started to do the right thing by adding Laijiang's comments which was intentionally deleted before for some reasons. Nature also apologized for this at a hardly noticeable place. However, Ewen Callaway's article has caused very very bad impact on Chinese community. His work led to false accusation to Ye as well as the whole Chinese community. Therefore, we look forward to see more actions from nature. We hope to see an official apology from Nature on this issue which will be highlighted in this journal. We also hope to see Ewan Callaway leaves his position and avoid some "great work" from him in the future. //www.nature.com/news/why-great-olympic-feats-raise-suspicions-1.11109#Ed_ note
华人生物学家协会出面要求撤稿 http://www.cbisociety.org/ Nature should adhere to fact-based and unbiased reporting Philip Campbell, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, Nature Dear Dr. Campbell: We write on behalf of the Chinese Biological Investigators Society (CBIS) to express our deep concern regarding a recent news article, titled "Why great Olympic feats raise suspicions" (www.nature.com/news/why-great-olympic- feats-raise-suspicions-1.11109, August 1, 2012), in which Ewen Callaway discussed the performance of Ye Shiwen, a 16-year old Chinese swimmer who won the gold medal in both 200m and 400m medley (IM) during the London Olympics. We respectfully request that the article be retracted, as its entire premise is based on manufactured "facts". We do not intend to defend the innocence or guilt of a particular athlete, but feel that Nature, a prestigious scientific journal, should stick to fact-based reporting and minimize bias. The premise of Callaway's article is that Ye's performance is anomalous, implying that no one else has accomplished such a feat without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs. This premise is based on two pieces of so called "anomalies", which are completely manufactured by cherry picking data to support an accusation that does not have a shred of evidence. First, Callaway stated that Ye's 400m IM improved by 7 seconds over a period of one year. This is misleading because Ye's personal best was not set in July of 2011 but in 2010 when she was 14. She improved her performance at the Olympics final by 5 seconds over her prior personal best. Most importantly, such an improvement is not anomalous but instead is EXPECTED for elite swimmers of Ye's age, as they grow bigger and stronger. There are many cases in which elite swimmers experienced a significant improvement at a young age. For example, Ian Thorpe, a great Australian swimmer, took 5 seconds off his 400m freestyle between the age of 15 and 16, and Adrian Moorhouse, a great UK swimmer and a Seoul Olympics gold medalist, stated that he improved by four seconds at the age of 17. The same happened to other elite swimmers, including the other seven swimmers in the 400m IM final (Fig. 1). Furthermore, if one looks at improvements as a percentage among the gold medalists in swimming in the London Olympics, Ye improved her personal best by 2% in 400m IM, whereas, R¨±ta Meilutyt?, a 15-year old Lithuanian swimmer, improved hers by over 4% in 100m breaststroke. Second, Callaway stated that Ye really raised eyebrows by her showing in the last 50 metres, in which she swam faster than American swimmer Ryan Lochte did when he won gold in the men's 400m IM, with the second-fastest time ever for that event. What Callaway failed to mention is that Ye actually was over 23 seconds slower than Lochte, an eternity for elite swimmers at this distance. More importantly, Lochte's last 50-metre swim is no where near the second-fastest time ever for that event, and several other swimmers in the same final were faster than him and faster than Ye. Lochte only ranked 5th in the last 50 meters, at 29"10, which was significantly slower than Japan's Yuya Horihata (27"87) and three other swimmers competing in the same event. Ye's time was 28"93. What really troubled us is how Callaway could have made such mistakes, as the information described above has been widely reported in the media and could be found on the internet with only a few clicks. We find it really unfortunate that, with manipulated facts, the article leaves readers with an unmistakable impression that Nature is putting a stamp of scientific approval for the unsubstantiated speculation in Western media - namely, Ye's feat is humanly impossible without the aid of performance enhancing drugs. We would like to further emphasize that while our data provide a more complete backdrop to Ye's achievement, they do not and should not negate the spectacular performance of Ye in winning the gold medal and shattering the world record. Many of our members have published research articles in Nature, which we hold at high regard as a top-quality scientific journal, and have been helping Nature to review manuscripts. Thus, we are deeply disappointed that your editorial process allows such a news article, in which data were cherry picked to support, consciously or not, suspicion of doping on an athlete with clean test results. This type of journalism should have no place in pop media, let alone a journal like Nature. We hope you are not abandoning fact -based and unbiased reporting, as is required for a scientific journal, and will take appropriate action to correct this unfortunate mistake. This includes publishing a rebuttal article countering Callaway's article and/or retracting Callaway's unsubstantiated article. Weimin Zhong¹*;, Hao Wu²*;, & Linheng Li³*; ¹*;Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA, w**********[email protected], 1-203- 432-9233 ²*;Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA, [email protected] harvard.edu, 1-617-713-8160 ³*;Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA, L*[email protected], 1-816-926-4081 *The authors are, respectively, Vice President, Board Member and President of the Chinese Biological Investigators Society Figure legend Figure 1. Substantial improvement of performance within one year is not " anomalous". a, The 2005-2012 timing record of the eight finalists in women's 400 IM, 2012 Olympics, pulled from the website of the official organization of aquatic sports, F¨¦d¨¦ration Internationale de Natation ( FINA). All data points represent the best performance of each athlete in each calendar year, with 80% of them ranked top 20 worldwide at the time on the event. b, Recorded performance leap of the same athletes early during their career, with ages marked above the bars. LZR swimming suits and their counterparts, which reportedly could enhance performance by around 2% ( roughly 6 seconds in this event), were launched in February of 2008, and later banned by FINA in January of 2010. Of note, at age 16 and as the youngest of the eight, Ye's improvement from her top-level performance in 2010-11 is indeed a remarkable achievement. However, fast improvement at an early age is not isolated in this field. This figure is courtesy of Guangbo Chen, Stowers Institute for Medical Research.
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【在 m**e 的大作中提到】 : 华人生物学家协会出面要求撤稿 : http://www.cbisociety.org/ : Nature should adhere to fact-based and unbiased reporting : Philip Campbell, Ph.D. : Editor-in-Chief, Nature : Dear Dr. Campbell: : We write on behalf of the Chinese Biological Investigators Society (CBIS) to : express our deep concern regarding a recent news article, titled "Why great : Olympic feats raise suspicions" (www.nature.com/news/why-great-olympic- : feats-raise-suspicions-1.11109, August 1, 2012), in which Ewen Callaway
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