Dr. Kass,

Thank you so much to clarify that the rumor against Dr. Fang that you spread here twice was completely from Dr. Xiao instead of from your own information or judgement. What we want you to know is that the rumor you heard from Dr. Xiao is more ignoble than what he had been repeatedly spreading over Chinese internet forums, where he said that Science magazine has confirmed that Dr. Fang plagiarized a research paper in his popular science essay. Instead, what you heard was that Dr. Fang "published research that was not his" and "falsifying data".

Your comments here, including the above-mentioned rumor, have been translated into Chinese and posted on Chinese forums by Dr. Xiao's supporters as the evidence to further attack Dr. Fang. Therefore, we strongly suggest you, a responsible person, should contact Jeffrey Mervis, deputy news editor of Science who was in charge of the investigation of Dr. Xiao's plagiarism accusation, and then make further clarification.

In addition, we would like you know that "the difficulties between Dr Fang and Dr Xiao" can be traced back much earlier than the false plagiarism accusation. Earlier than that, Dr. Xiao had been frequently criticized by Dr. Fang for Xiao's supports to the questionable persons or scientific practices exposed by Dr. Fang, such as the one reported by Science:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/293/5532/1039
China: biochemist wages online war against ethical lapses. Science. Aug 10, 2001: 293, 1039.

By the way, would you please also clarify the lie regarding the widespread acceptance of Xiao's procedure in China? It is totally different from what Dr. Xiao once told Chinese media that his team is the only one who performs the procedure in his affiliated hospitals only.

Besides, we would also like you to show us the most important conference report where the 85% success rate originates. Your Beaumont team cite the 85% success rate of 92 SCI and 110 SB patients in your NIH project information, so that we assume you have already read the report, even though we could not find it out in both Chinese and English literature. We are eager to see this report after several years of searching with no result.

Finally, please allow use to cite a piece of your previous post: "one certainly has to question that persons judgement", if the persons really base their research on those lies and rumors.

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