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Newsmakers of the Year

Updated: 2013-12-24 14:40 By Uking Sun (chinadaily.com.cn)
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Newsmakers of the Year

He was called a psycho, lunatic, a traitor, a thug by his opponents, but a popular science writer, a truth seeker, a man of integrity, and a science cop by his supporters. Fang Shimin, known as Fang Zhouzi, has a long history of exposing academic fraud and spurious celebrity claims. The year 2013 saw his ongoing combat with fierce opponents of genetically modified food, especially after Cui Yongyuan, former CCTV anchorman and now a teacher at Communication University of China, joined the anti-GM campaign. The struggle is still going on over the safety of GM food, but Fang clearly thrashed Taiwan celebrity Jimmy Lin Chin-ying’s overstated effects of an unlicensed collagen product.

 

 

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