At the end of April, some netizens broke the news, Photo Geography magazine. An article was published, the theme of which is that cooked eggs can hatch chickens again, and the paper also gives the process and results of the experiment of cooked eggs returning to life, as well as pictures of chickens hatched finally. It caused an uproar immediately after being exposed. At the beginning, the author claimed that his experiment was well founded and there was nothing wrong with it. However, with the fermentation of public opinion, he or she had to admit that his academic paper was fraudulent, and this paper was written for Hua 600 yuan.
Cooked eggs can't be turned into raw eggs, let alone hatched chicks again, but this kind of article can be published, causing the following problems.
The first is the review of published articles by magazines. The magazine Photo Geography involved obviously has no awe of science. They only publish articles for profit, and don't care about the scientific basis and facts behind the articles. This kind of article, founded purely for charging, has no effect on the development of science and technology.
Secondly, the author's attitude towards scientific research. In fact, this article is not just as simple as ghostwriting. There are 8 papers in Chinese, and the author once gave a public speech on the theme of the return of cooked eggs. Anyone with common sense knows that this question is wrong, but he can still make a public speech, and even many people listen to it, which is also very outrageous. The author once advocated that this topic would be adopted as a course of Chinese Academy of Sciences, which was simply ridiculous.
Finally, the question of why pseudoscience can still develop. A series of courses carried out by the author's school are pseudoscience courses, which teach students how to hatch chickens with ideas and even have a dialogue with mung bean sprouts. This course is incredibly expensive, and even parents of students are willing to sign up, which shows that the public does not realize the harm of pseudoscience.
Perhaps the exposure of the retrogradation of cooked eggs can also promote researchers to carry out experiments more scientifically and rigorously, which is helpful to the development of society, but this kind of article really should not be published again.