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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in engineering R&D. Whenever I see a scientific paper published by US/Europe/Japanese organizations that give a promising result, I'm able to reproduce the results. For the Chinese organizations, for the vast majority of time, I'm either unable to reproduce the results or once I invest time on the paper, I realize that the authors did not present the full picture that would unveil the cons of their solution.[/quote]

I'm a STEM academic and can confidently say that you are lying or at least exaggerating. It is often very difficult to reproduce experimental results not because they are wrong, but because it can be extremely costly to create the test conditions under which the results are obtained. For example, you cannot easily generate the physical conditions needed to observe superconductivity, certainly not with the capability of an average lab. You also cannot easily conduct clinical trials involving thousands of human/animal subjects that last several years before a conclusion can be drawn, for obvious reasons. Thus, it is likely that you are at least exaggerating.

Moreover, I don't care about China but reproducibility of scientific results is not so clear cut as to "US/Europe/Japanese = yes" and "China = often no." There are many honest, dedicated Chinese scientists, and there are also some dishonest scientists from US/Europe/Japanese. For instance, German scientists Jan Hendrik Schön who fabricated data about superconductivity (my field) came to mind. It's equal opportunity cheating, depending little on their countries of origin.[/quote]
You erroneously assumed I'm in a wet lab or doing clinical trials. Why do you assume that? In my field, we do computer simulations that model real-world conditions. There are standard ways of doing that. If I spend enough time on a paper and there is sufficient information (most of the time there is), I can write computer simulations to validate the results of the paper. So I'm not lying, nor exaggerating. I'm yet to encounter a useful Chinese paper in my field. They mislead the reader. There is one good researcher I know from Hong Kong, but that's not really China.[/quote]

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