60% of Chinese Phd Students Admit to Fraud

Found via AsiaBizBlog, The Christian Science Monitor (May 16, 2006) reports:

A recent Ministry of Science study of 180 PhD candidates in China found that 60 percent admitted plagiarizing, and the same percentage admitted paying bribes to get their work published.

"The actual situation might be worse than that, particularly in the area of social sciences," says Fang Zhouzi, a biochemist who splits his time between California and Beijing, and runs a website that has detailed more than 500 cases of serious academic fraud in China.

Let's hope the Chinese don't point their fingers at the global financial services industry. Or consulting. Or law. But we guess with real science fraud is a more serious affair. In other disciplines its sometimes just called marketing.