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?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Free Tibet into the hands of CIA tool Dalai “Suck My Tongue” Lama.

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

OK, but what if every opinion I have about Tibet has been formed by that one Brad Pitt movie where he plays a literal SS officer?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Gen x spooked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3zDn39VogY

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Am gen x, was a LIB propagandized by the zeitgeist: Tibetan Freedom Concert

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[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

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

[–] nekandro@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years 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.

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

The point is this isn't "criticism". It's just a journal trying to legitimize western propaganda and slow down China's inevitable rise to the top in scientific research, like they're trying to do in other fields like computing. This article doesn't admit it outright, but the last paragraph shows they seem to understand that quite well.