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Biographies of Famous Fangologists

28 08 2011年

[Disclaimer: If you find something ridiculous in the Biographies, it is what it is.]

1. Chuanguo Xiao

Former medical doctor and professor (dismissed), inventor of the “Xiao Procedure”, a surgical procedure that, according to Xiao’s claims, can restore “almost normal storage and synergic voiding” in patients with spinal cord injury [a1], and “can achieve continence and restore bladder function in children with spina bifida” [a2]. His “scientific and humanitarian contributions to the world” were highly commended by his collaborators from the “International Academic Community” in an open letter [a3] in support of Xiao after he was arrested for masterminding violent attacks on science fraud buster Fang Zhouzi and journalist Fang Xuanchang [a4,a5].

His most greatest humanitarian contribution is that, funded by an NIH grant initially awarded for dogs research [a6,a7], he “took the courageous step of moving from animal research to human studies” [a3] on Chinese miners, 4 years before his research paper on cats was published in a peer-reviewed journal [a8]. His another humanitarian contribution is that he and his team had massively practiced his procedure on thousands of Chinese patients [a9], before the procedure was banned by the local health department [a10] following the announcement from the Ministry of Health of China that “the safety and efficacy of the technique still lacks validation in the sense of evidence-based medicine” [a11].

One of his scientific contributions is that, in less than 8 months after his first surgery in his hospital, he creatively found that, “followed up for more than 8 months, 85% of the 60 patients have recovered normal bladder and bowel functions” [a12]. His most significant contribution is that he bravely brought his procedure to the validation by doctors all over the world, although the clinical trials out of China so far have showed that “the clinical benefit of the procedure is not at all similar to (Xiao’s) previous reports” [a13]; “the surgery failed to achieve its primary goal for any of the eight SCI patients” in Germany [a14]; “incontinence still problem in most” of 9 spina bifida patients in the U.S. [a15].

Mr. Xiao is a pioneer Fangologist. He was the first to report Fang Zhouzi’s plagiarism as early as 10 years ago, but unfortunately was dismissed by Science for groundless accusation [a16]. Since then, he has spared no effort in verbal criticism, legal actions, and finally physical strike on Fang, while the latter led to his imprisonment, the removal of his professorship, and the revocation of his medical licence. After getting out of jail, he is still actively engaged in the studies of Fangology, besides promoting his procedure, recruiting patients and remote diagnosis on his blog. Mr. Xiao’s tireless efforts in each of anti-Fang campaigns, especially his experience behind bars, have made him the well-deserved spiritual leader of Fangologists.

Update:
Xiao set up a new hospital in 2012 after previous one was dissolved, regardless of repeated warnings from health officials that he “should not implement the Xiao Procedure without authorization”[a], after the Ministry of Health of China reiterated in Nov. 2010, Apr. 2012 and May 2012 press conferences [a11, a17, a18], that “the safety and efficacy of the technique still lacks validation in the sense of evidence-based medicine” and therefore “should not be implemented in clinical practice”[a17].

2. Xin Ge (Yiming)

Former technician in Plant Biology [b1] and part-time teacher in Elementary Chinese Mandarin [b2] at the University of South Carolina. His greatest contribution to medicine is the invention of a hangover medicine, with expected annual sales of 20 million dollars [b3]. In 2003 and 2007, posing as an “Associate Professor in Molecular Biology”, he came to China to promote his hangover medicine [b3], but unfortunately failed. His greatest contribution to biology is that he found one of the risks of GM foods to human health is the possibility of “the recombination of transgenic DNA and human genomic DNA” [b4].

Dr. Ge is the inventor of the term “Fangology” (Studies on Fang Zhouzi) [b5], and therefore the founder of it. He is currently a dedicated Fangologist who has published several online Fangology books with more than a million words, most of which were published to support Mr. Xiao Chuanguo immediately after Xiao’s arrest.

3. Junlin Liao (Xunzheng)

Financial Analyst at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Department of Surgery [c1]. As a self-claimed “Assistant Professor of Medicine” [c2] “doing clinical-focused medical research” [c3], he has made many contributions to biology and medicine. For example, he declared that “the Central Dogma has long been overthrown and falsified [c3]”; he found that “currently the authorities in the U.S. adopt food therapy as the preferred treatment of hypertension [c2]”. He also has significant contributions to the studies of law and criminal investigation. For example, he determined that an open letter protesting an unjust sentence “violates the principle of judicial independence… is a criminal offense … even could be convicted of contempt of court [c4]”; he inferred that “Fang Zhouzi himself staged the show with the probability of 5% [c5]” after Fang being attacked.

Dr. Liao believes that “the bastards who conspired the violence are really fucking cowards; brave ones should stand up and come forward directly” [c6]. Shortly after Xiao was identified to be the coward behind the violent attacks, Dr. Liao stood up and came forward directly to “offer reward to attack Fang Zhouzi,” announcing that “I want to recruit people to attack you, doing it righteously: … I reward $30 for each of the cases of spilling on Fang’s head with feces filled in a 300 ml or more container”[c7]. After the local police being called, Dr. Liao “no longer offers reward to attack Fang Zhouzi”, and cursed that “those who conspired violent actions should go to hell”[c8].

4. Shi Liu

Information technology specialist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [d1], self-claimed “super-class life scientist” and self-appointed “EPA environmental expert” [d2]. He is a long-term frequent contributor to top journals such as Cell, Nature and Science. After his huge amount of submissions misfortunately being rejected, he has become the sole author of a fleet of “scientific journals” [d3], of which he is also the publisher and the editor-in-chief [d4].

Shortly after Mr. Xiao’s arrest, Dr. Liu announced to “publicly surrender myself to Beijing police for my collusion and instigation with Chuanguo Xiao to teach Fang Zhouzi a lesson”, claiming himself as “the commander in chief of world’s army destroying Fang”, and “the highest level mastermind behind the case of teasing (not attacking) Fang” [d5].

5. Christopher Gan (Yuanpaigu)

Self-claimed “indepdent scholar” who “has to work everyday to pay the bills” [e1]. He also claimed that he “teaches at a Southern California law school” [e1], whose contribution in legal research is that he found that there do exist laws in the United States that “prohibit the public to express their political views in the Capitol” [e2]. Mr. Gan is also an amateur detective who, according to Yiming, “has seized a large amount of criminal evidence against Fang Zhouzi” [e3].

Shortly after Mr. Xiao’s arrest, Mr. Gan impersonated himself as Fang Zhouzi to post numerous abusive comments to curse Fang at Science’s website [e4], to express his hatred towards Fang. He also revealed in his comments that “that open letter signed by those 34 international medical doctors was written by Dr. Xaio’s wife”.

References

[a1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14501733
[a2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15879861
[a3] http://im1.biz/000/Xiao_Support_Letter_Int.pdf
[a4] http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/10/doctor-sentenced-in-beijing-for.html
[a5] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7318/full/467884a.html
[a6] http://www.researchgrantdatabase.com/g/5R01DK053063-05/SKIN-CNS-BLADDER-REFLEX-ARC-FOR-MICTURITION-AFTER-SCI/
[a7] http://xysblogs.org/wp-content/blogs/107/uploads/1998xiao14sci.gif
[a8] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10458412
[a9] http://news.yahoo.com/patients-protest-chinese-doctors-risky-surgery.html
[a10] http://xysblogs.org/wp-content/blogs/20/uploads/cctv2xiao.jpg
[a11] http://www.gov.cn/xwfb/2010-11/09/content_1741636_2.htm
[a12] http://xysblogs.org/wp-content/blogs/107/uploads/xpletter.html#l4
[a13] http://xysblogs.org/xysergroup/archives/8025
[a14] http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern+Medicine+Now/Bladder-function-not-achieved-with-nerve-re-routin/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/698878
[a15] http://www.icsoffice.org/Documents/Documents.aspx?DocumentID=897
[a16] http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6bc79f2f0100rum8.html
[a17] http://www.gov.cn/xwfb/2012-04/12/content_2111891.htm
[a18] http://china.caixin.com/2012-05-08/100388020.html