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标  题: [转载]今天nature又公布了一起中国照片造假事件
发信站: 日月光华 (2008年02月28日23:25:25 星期四), 站内信件

【 以下文字转载自 Nature 讨论区 】
【 原文由 mandelbrot 所发表 】

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http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080227/full/4511034b.html 

Acclaimed photo was faked

Chinese prizewinner merged two images.

Jane Qiu
The 'photo' was actually a merger of two images.The 'photo' was actually a 
merger of two images.

An award-winning photograph of a herd of endangered Tibetan antelopes 
apparently undisturbed by a passing train on the controversial Qinghai–Tibet
 railway has been exposed as a fake. The image was widely hailed in China 
as a symbol of harmonious co-existence between man and nature and strong 
testimony against any adverse effect of the new railway on the animals.

Photographer Liu Wei-qiang admitted the fabrication last week after 
comments on the Chinese online photography forum Without Fear questioned 
the picture's authenticity. Liu was promptly dismissed from the Daqing 
Evening News, based in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, where he was the 
deputy director of its photography department. The newspaper has also 
issued a public statement apologizing for the incident and announcing the 
resignation of its chief editor.

“The train was real, and so were the antelopes,” said Liu in a posting on 
the photography forum. “But the magic moment just didn't happen even after 
I had waited for two weeks.” Therefore, he decided to merge together one 
picture of a passing train with another of the migrating animals “to raise 
the public awareness of antelope protection”. The merged picture was 
published by more than 200 media outlets around the world and won Liu a 
bronze medal in the 2006 Most Influential News Photos of the Year 
competition, sponsored by CCTV, China's state television.

Yang Xin, president of Green River, a non-governmental environmental 
organization based in Chengdu, Sichuan province, met Liu on the Tibetan 
plateau in 2006. He says that he was surprised by the photographer's luck 
in seeing the train and animals passing on the same spot. “It is probably 
a one-in-a-thousand opportunity,” he said.

“The truth is probably the opposite of what the picture was trying to 
claim,” says Su Jian-ping, a zoologist at the Northwest Institute of 
Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Xining, Qinghai province. 
Su is sceptical of the government's claim that the railway has no impact on 
the antelopes' migration patterns. The antelopes are shy creatures and 
particularly prone to disturbances, he says, having spent years on the 
plateau studying their behaviour. There is no such a thing as “harmonious 
co-existence” between the train and antelopes, he adds. “You just don't 
see them together.”

Yang describes Liu's behaviour as “totally inexcusable”, and says that it 
has tainted the field of wildlife conservation. “Liu fabricated and 
supplied the image the government badly wanted to see, which may not have 
reflected the reality.”

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The incident is not the first faked image to be used in the environmental 
arena. Last October, the Shanxi Forestry Department publicized two 
photographs of a South China tiger in the wild, which caused much 
excitement as the species had been considered functionally extinct. 
According to the verdicts of six experts in forensics and image 
verification, the pictures were fake, probably taken of a cardboard tiger 
planted in the woods. The farmer claiming to have taken the snaps stands by 
their authenticity, and the local government is yet to release the report 
of its own investigation.

“These are hardly isolated incidences,” say Qiu Ren-zong, an ethicist at 
the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in 
Beijing. “China suffers from a serious lack of accountability with rampant 
fraud and corruption in its political, economic and academic life.” Real 
transparency and an effective check-and-balance system must be put in place 
if China is to move forward, he says.
 
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标  题: Re: [转载]今天nature又公布了一起中国照片造假事件
发信站: 日月光华 (2008年02月29日00:25:11 星期五), 站内信件

nature越来越8g了呀。。。