曹雪濤回應(yīng)論文涉嫌造假：對論文結(jié)果仍有信心，但不會推脫疏于管理的責(zé)任
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根據(jù)澎湃新聞介紹，11月18日，中國工程院辦公廳工作人員回應(yīng)曹雪濤論文造假一事，中國工程院會針對網(wǎng)絡(luò)反映曹雪濤院士的有關(guān)問題展開調(diào)查。
“我們已經(jīng)了解到網(wǎng)絡(luò)上有關(guān)曹雪濤院士的投訴，我們會調(diào)查處理這件事情，但是進(jìn)一步調(diào)查處理也需要花時間，具體以什么形式展開調(diào)查，目前暫時還不掌握最新情況，只是說我們（中國工程院）肯定會調(diào)查?！鄙鲜鋈耸勘硎?。
最近，有關(guān)南開大學(xué)校長曹雪濤論文造假一事，引起學(xué)術(shù)界高度關(guān)注，此事緣于國外學(xué)者Elisabeth M Bik的質(zhì)疑，隨后其向PubPeer公開，據(jù)Bik介紹，他們正在仔細(xì)審閱曹雪濤實(shí)驗(yàn)室300余篇的論文，發(fā)現(xiàn)的問題論文已超過了50篇。
11月18日，曹雪濤也在PubPeer向論文質(zhì)疑人Elisabeth M Bik 發(fā)出正面回應(yīng)，回應(yīng)全信如下：
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
