文学城体育看台的老网友写的也很棒！转在这儿：
Echt Warsteiner said:
Congratulations, Nature! Mr. Callaway has single-handedly helped your smooth
transformation from prestigious scientific landmark towards a brand new
tabloid, successfully. Instead of "International Journal of Science", now
you are busy with rumors and second-guessing, and backed up by strong
conviction – I don't have any proof, as a matter of fact, all official
testing result just proven my suspicion unfounded and completely wrong, but
I don't care about truth. I just stay firm on my belief, those Chinese are
cheaters.
Half truth is sometimes a lot worse and deliberately misleading than a whole
lie. For instance, the headline – Ye is faster than the fastest man in her
last 50M. How wrong could that be? If I hear that I would immediately raise
the same question as well, is Ye clean? However, as we all know now, that
50M from that supposedly fastest man Lochte, was a completely slowed down
cruising to his gold medal, which only ranked 5th in the same race.
As if put the word "scientific" in front of your profiling, makes all the
consistent accusation without proof, or even proven to be wrong, "scientific
". Thorpe smashed his own record by 8 seconds at age of 15; Phelps improved
his own record by 4 seconds at age of 15; Rice even shortened her own record
by 6 second; Missy Franklin won gold only 13 minutes after her exhausting
200 free semi; Ruta Meilutyte came out of nowhere and jumped from 14th place
in the world to Olympic gold. Those were all exceptional and dramatic
improvement achievements, in other words "incredible" or "unbelievable". But
those data would not trigger your "scientific" profiling, because they don'
t pass the MOST important criteria – China. As American hero Carl Lewis put
it clearly, "Who cares I failed drug tests?". Exactly, he's no Chinese.
Mr. Callaway, thank you for being honest with us on the end. As you sited >"Tucker says. 'When we look at this young swimmer from China who breaks a
world record, thatâ#8482;s not proof of anything. It asks a question
or two.'" How generous and kind of you? You don't have proof, but you
just have suspicions, IF you are Chinese, and if you do well. Something must
be wrong. Even vigorous test results were published before and after the
race, and ten times more in the past 2 years, proved Ye is clean, "we" still
don't buy it.
After all, your scientific profiling just consists of five simple letters –
C-H-I-N-A.
When my wife published a paper on Nature many years ago, she was excited and
proud, and I was proud of her as well, because I felt that was the real
recognition of her achievement. Now, I just realized, it's really not that
hard, anti-China will just do the trick.
It's election year, normally it's time for politicians to step up the China
bashing game. It's not only politically correct, but also fashionable to
blame China on everything and anything. Better yet, accusing China or
Chinese is the easiest job, because you don't need any proof, "red commie
China" is automatically associated with any evil doings. Chinese won't get
onto the street, and Chinese won't get TV time to say they are offended.
More importantly, Chinese won't get organized to affect any voting
meaningfully.
Why should Nature shy away from the party? Where do I sign up to celebrate
Nature's new-found territory?
