主题：【整理】黎阳：为肖传国说句公道话（一个海归的杯具） -- 迷途笨狼

Your criteria for 科普文章 is simply wrong. Yes, 科普文章 mostly cites other people's work, similar to review articles in journals. If you interpret these people's work in your own words, attaching references behind is enough. However, if you cite their work word-by-word, you need to put these words into brackets, so that people will not be confused to think that you wrote these words. You can refer to Scientific American for how to write acceptable 科普文章.

That is why Fang's practice is not considered acceptable journalism in the U.S. by Science editors, it is plagiarism fair and square. No questions about it. The editors did not call it out because: 1. they consider Fang in the same camp at that time, and 2. Fang translated them into Chinese (shamelessly word-by-word).