Chapter 265: Ironclad evidence of plagiarism
Zhuze frowned, but she had no choice but to follow the judge's instructions to provide evidence for the alleged plagiarism of the paper. She did not expect that today's lawsuit would be turned into this situation by the other male lawyer.
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Takezawa knew very well what Beihara's wishful thinking was.
Judge Kawada is a judge who pays attention to practical results.
If there are no major problems with the substantive issues, he will definitely raise the procedural issues high and put them down gently.
Therefore, Kitahara wanted to take advantage of this situation to show that the alleged plagiarism of the paper involved was not a certainty. As long as he could successfully shake the judge's belief, and then attack the administrative procedures of this case, he might be able to usher in a turning point.
However, wishful thinking is not so easy to achieve!
Even if it comes to substantive issues, the university has absolutely no fault at all!
Takezawa and Asakura Yan next to him looked at each other, then stood up and gave evidence: "The defendant will present the sixth set of evidence below. The first piece of evidence is the paper "Proteins and Nucleic Acids under Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy" written by the plaintiff.
"Secondary Structure Research" manuscript letter to be published. The second piece of evidence, the full text of "Study of Protein and Nucleic Acid Secondary Structure under Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy", comes from the email attachment of the first piece of evidence. The third piece of evidence, bioresearch
The investigation letter from the journal. The fourth piece of evidence, "Image analysis report on the data in the fourth section of the paper". The fifth piece of evidence, "Analysis of image comparison results of the paper."
Zhuze's voice became sonorous and powerful.
Each piece of evidence thrown out seemed to denounce Mikiko's academic misconduct.
Takezawa continued: "The above evidence proves that the plaintiff Mikiko Tamai submitted a paper to the biological journal Bioresearch in June 2019 and 2017, a paper titled "Research on the Secondary Structure of Proteins and Nucleic Acid under Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy."
In October this year, after peer review, the journal officially sent a publication letter to Mikiko, expressing its agreement to accept the paper. Although the paper has not yet been published publicly, in November this year, the journal bioresearch received an anonymous report
The letter claimed that the above-mentioned paper contained academic misconduct and that key experimental data had been tampered with, forged, spliced, etc."
"Subsequently, Bioresearch internally announced an investigation into the paper. However, since the journal did not have enough manpower and resources to investigate the academic misconduct of the Eucalyptus-related paper, in November of the same year, Bioresearch sent an investigation letter to Kyoto University, hoping that
The university can also initiate an investigation into Mikiko."
"After receiving the above letter, Kyoto University established a corresponding expert group and entrusted an external imaging company to analyze the papers involved. After the external imaging company used professional software analysis, "Proteins and Nucleic Acids under Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy"
The fourth section of the experimental data of the article "Secondary Structure Research" contains a total of 12 experimental data figures. Among them, 12-1, 12-3, 12-4, 12-6, 12-7, 12-8, 12-11, etc.
, a total of 7 data graphs, suspected of using PS software. There are obvious traces of tampering such as mold lakes, enlargement, alteration, etc. in the pigments of relevant data points.”
"Secondly, after comparison, the two experimental data graphs 12-9 and 12-12 are suspected to be part of the experimental data graphs published by the Western scholar Hector Rios."
Zhuze was in court, showing evidence one after another.
The above or professional papers.
Or a comparison chart after enlarging the image.
Document after document shows Mikiko's academic misconduct.
Takezawa paused slightly, and then continued: "The above evidence can fully show that the plaintiff Mikiko participated in scientific research as a doctoral student, had no bottom line and sense of responsibility, arbitrarily fabricated, tampered, forged, and even borrowed information from other people's articles.
Cutting and splicing data for one's own use. The pursuit of scientific research is nothing more than a true word. Like the plaintiff Mikiko, she actually directly fabricated data, and also cut other people's data to piece together the so-called "scientific research results". This does not affect the mutual trust and mutual trust of the academic community.
The harm caused by Lai is extremely great! The plaintiff has no respect for scientific research work. He is such a black sheep, and Kyoto University determined that his paper was suspected of serious academic misconduct and expelled him. There is absolutely evidence!
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Takezawa loudly scolded Mikiko for her data compilation behavior.
Some citizens in the back row of the auditorium could not help but curse in a low voice when they heard this kind of scientific research behavior that was blatantly fabricating data.
"Sure enough, this little girl is not a good person!"
"Blatantly fabricating data, tsk tsk tsk!"
"Our taxpayers' money is wasted like this!"
"Is this the kind of student we are cultivating now?!"
"It seems that Kyoto University is also a victim!"
The trend in the court has changed again. Everyone's eyes are on the plaintiff's attorney. In the face of such irrefutable evidence, how can the plaintiff defend itself?
Kitahara looked around the court and knew that the most critical moment was coming. It was almost impossible to reverse Mikiko's so-called plagiarism accusation. But as long as the judge was able to make a 100% determination as to whether her behavior must be serious
Only when the fact of serious academic misconduct is confirmed and shaken can this lawsuit be said to have any hope of victory.
Now, success or failure depends on this.
The first decisive point in this lawsuit has been reached.
It's like an attacker surrounding an enemy city in the dark night. Now the cannon has been transported thousands of miles away, and the muzzle of the gun has been pointed at the enemy's thick city wall. If the artillery shells cannot destroy the opponent's city, then this
This will mean that the expedition so far will face the risk of complete failure and the entire army will be annihilated.
"Chief referee." Kitahara's voice rang out, "In response to the so-called evidence produced by the defendant's attorney that accuses Mikiko of academic misconduct and plagiarism, the plaintiff's attorney now submits four pieces of evidence to the court. The first piece of evidence is that the plaintiff Mikiko and the biological
The email records of Xundoku Co., Ltd.; the second piece of evidence, the "Experiment Outsourcing Contract" signed between the plaintiff Mikiko and Bio Xundoku Co., Ltd.; the third piece of evidence, the "Experimental Schedule of the Takeuchi-Muragi Joint Research Group"; the fourth piece of evidence.
A piece of evidence, the number of Raman spectrometers in stock at Kyoto University’s A-89 Laboratory.”
"The above evidence proves that due to the large number of experiments arranged by the Takeuchi-Muragi joint research team between this year and January 2020, the equipment in the relevant laboratories is tight and unable to carry out all operations. In particular, the Raman spectrometer in the laboratory has been used by other experimental groups.
Occupied. In this case, in order to successfully complete the scientific research paper, the plaintiff Mikiko found Bio-Xintoku Co., Ltd. and entrusted it to use the company's Raman spectrometer to carry out experimental operations for it. To this end, the two parties signed an "Experimental Outsourcing Contract"
", it was agreed that Bio-Xunde Co., Ltd. would be responsible for recording the experimental data of the Raman spectrometer in the paper."
"However, Bio-Xonder Co., Ltd. violated my client's wishes and deceived my client with fabricated data, of which the plaintiff Mikiko is also a victim. Yes, the plaintiff Mikiko, as the author of the paper, should bear the responsibility for the article. However, regarding the so-called fabrication of data in the paper involved,
But it was produced by the outsourcing part of the experiment. For the parts that were not outsourced, the authenticity and repeatability of the experiment have been inspected by peers."
"Mikiko was indeed negligent, but in the final analysis, this kind of error was caused by the experimental outsourcing company. My client Mikiko did not directly engage in data fabrication, splicing, etc. In the internal processing of the university, the above-mentioned serious academic misconduct was attributed
Chapter completed!