科学无国界?美国埃默里大学就双开中国教授发表声明

5月18日，知社发布独家新闻，披露美国打压中国学者事态升级，Emory大学杰出讲席教授实验室突遭关闭，夫人也遭受牵连，在海内外引起广泛关注。因官方新闻尚未发布，知社为保护当事人，选择隐藏学校和姓名信息。随后国内多家网络媒体跟进，包括BioWorld，材料科学与工程，赛先生，知识分子等，都做了转播和进一步报道，而且点出了Emory大学李晓江和李世华两位教授的名字。

美东时间5月23日，Emory大学对知社报道作出回应，发布公开声明如下，其核心是NIH高度关注海外势力对美国科研的影响，调查发现两位教员没有完全披露其海外研究经费来源及其在中国高校和研究所的工作范围。Emory就此向NIH做了汇报，而这两位教授也已不再受雇于Emory。也就是说，被解职了：

“The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal funding agencies have raised concerns regarding foreign influence on research activities in the United States, as expressed in NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins’ August 2018 statement.

Emory, like other universities in the U.S., is working closely with the NIH to address these concerns and to respond to NIH requests regarding specific projects. Through an internal investigation prompted by a letter that the NIH sent to many academic research universities, Emory discovered that two of its faculty members named as key personnel on NIH grant awards to Emory University had failed to fully disclose foreign sources of research funding and the extent of their work for research institutions and universities in China. Emory has shared this information with the NIH, and the faculty members are no longer employed at Emory.

It is important to note that Emory remains committed to the free exchange of ideas and research and to our vital collaborations with researchers from around the world. At the same time, Emory also takes very seriously its obligation to be a good steward of federal research dollars and to ensure compliance with all funding disclosure and other requirements.“

这份声明在最后声称Emory信奉所谓思想自由碰撞、坚持国际科研合作，但就双开两位中国教授而言，丝毫看不出Emory校方学术自由的影子，政治干预和伪善的意味非常浓厚，自相矛盾的地方比比皆是。这从以下几点可以看出：

首先，美国大学Tenure制度的起源，是为保障教授的学术自由，能在不受外界环境干预的影响下自由研究。Tenured的教授可以Fired for cause, 但是当事人的due process必须保障，包括procedure due process，无论是在大学内部，还是在美国的司法体系。事实上，这是美国的立国之本，是美国宪法第五修正案和第十四修正案所确认的。Emory 大学双开两位教授而没有给予当事人任何辩解的机会和上诉渠道，既侵犯了两位教授的学术自由，也侵犯了两位教授应当享受的due process。

更严重的是，李晓江李世华实验室多名中国学生也被一同解雇，并限30天内离境。即便教授有问题，为什么学生也要受到牵连？每一个学生究竟犯了什么错，不需要一一核实吗？就是因为他们都来自中国？说好的不因国籍、人种、肤色、各种各样性取向性认知而受歧视呢？原来所谓Equal Protection只是精英阶层拿温室里面的弱势群体当道具用的！

同样滑稽的是，Emory今天甩锅的时候，声称不知道李晓江海外经费来源及中国研究范围，拿Credit的时候，可是毫不含糊。就在2018年3月29日，Emory官网还发布新闻，歌颂李晓江的研究成果。虽然他的主页已经被删，这篇新闻却还挂在那里，有图有真相，报道的是李晓江CRISPR-Cas9基因编辑亨廷顿疾病猪模型的重大突破，发表于Cell。看看新闻怎么说吧，这项研究得到美国NIH，中国重点研发计划、基金委，和广东省的资助！Emory能说不知道么？

The pig model of HD was established by researchers at Emory University School of Medicine, together with colleagues at Jinan University and Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou.

The research was supported by the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS101701, NS095279, NS095181), National Key Research and Development Program of China (Stem Cell and Translational Research), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Guangdong Province.

最可笑的是，NIH院长Francis Collins 2017年6月27日，还在他的院长专栏里面，歌颂李晓江的研究成果，也是有图有真相，怎么说的呢？

The progress, reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation [1], comes from the NIH-supported team of Su Yang, Renbao Chang, Xiao-Jiang Li, and colleagues at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta. The group’s previous work showed that halting the production of mutated (or even healthy!) HTT protein in mature neurons doesn’t hurt the cells or cause obvious neurological problems in mice [2]

Collins院长治学严谨，专栏里面引用了两篇李晓江的文章，大家自己看看PubMed里面显示的这两篇文章所列李晓江的两个工作单位吧，到底有没有披露，Collins院长不知道么？

见过无耻的，没见过这么无耻的。真是斯文扫地、谎话连篇！