Rao Yi · Full chronicle and history

Recently, Rao Yi, a professor at Peking University, publicly named and criticized the editor-in-chief of the international journal Cancer Cell, a person surnamed Mao, for taking money to help publish papers, charging 2 million for a single article. Rao Yi questioned him by email; the other party denied it and demanded that the remarks be retracted, but Rao Yi refused. Netizens dug up information suggesting the person is Mao Yuntao.

On October 7, Rao Yi discussed Japanese scientists winning Nobel Prizes on the WeChat public account "Rao Yi on Science," criticizing academic misconduct in China, saying that many institutions engage in cover-ups and use public power to defend fraudsters, wasting state funds and betraying their responsibility to the people.