• freagle@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Tibet and Xinjiang are literally autonomous ethnic regions that are under local governments of Tibetans and Uighurs, respectively. No one has any concerns about the poor donating plasma or Canadians pushing euthanasia to the poor, but you’re gonna just smear scientists because of Westoid propaganda?

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      9 months ago

      Tibet and Xinjiang are part of China because they want to. Can we say the same about Texas?

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      9 months ago

      This is the real issue I have with all Chinese reporting: by government policy, they have proportional ethnic representation (and often overrepresent minorities in government in autonomous regions). Yes, it’s still technically the CPC, but it’s like saying that the BC NDP and federal NDP are the same party with the same interests.

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      9 months ago

      Who are you adressing? The guardian article refers to retractions in multiple journals.
      Also, people are worried about socioeconomic factors involved in plasma donation and euthanasia. As they should be. These are always important to be aware of and to actively try to preempt.
      These things don’t absolve the retracted papers from criticism. Nor do they exclude any other research from close scrutiny