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

Of course 没有人会认为科普文章是他自己的工作。

But still, Fang is expected to write in his own words, in other words, express his own understanding of other people's work. Otherwise, Fang is expected to write "to cite XXX's words, ......", or put the citations in brackets. Apparently, if he did that, a significant portion of his article would be in brackets:) I doubt any newspaper/journal would like to publish his stuff.

At that time, Science editors were in the same camp as Fang, therefore they saved his face by only saying " it would not be considered acceptable journalism in western standard."

If Fang send in his article as a term paper/homework to my hands, hehe, see you in the University Honor Committee and good luck with even getting an "F".

Please refer to Scientific American for acceptable 科普 articles, and find if ANYONE did what Fang did.