Chen Jianren has made great contributions to global public health and improving the health and well-being of the people. The recent discrediting of his academic research by the Blue Camp has aroused public outrage in the academic circle.

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[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] At the invitation of President Tsai Ing-wen, Chen Chien-jen served as the Cabinet Secretary. Recently, the Blue Camp has been discrediting his academic achievements and contributions, causing public outrage. Wu Ming-hsien, president of National Taiwan University Hospital, said that Chen Chien-jen’s research contributions have benefited people all over the world, which is regrettable Politicians who attack Chen Chien-jen's academic research have only color in their eyes and politics in their heads, "Taiwan will not progress in this way!"

Taking the lead in discovering the cause of blackfoot disease and achieving global recognition in public health

Chen Jianren is not only an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but also a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Huang Jinxing, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that Chen Jianren’s contribution to global academics is beyond doubt. It was very unfair to Chen Chien-jen; Wu Mingxian, the director of National Taiwan University Hospital, also stood up to defend Chen Chien-jen, saying that Chen Chien-jen had made three outstanding contributions to global medicine and public health. Unable to find the cause of blackleg disease, Chen Chien-jen led a delegation to conduct groundwater surveys and found that the heavy metal "arsenic" contained in groundwater was a key factor for blackfoot disease. It was also found that many diseases were also related to arsenic poisoning. Chen Jianren proposed the safety of arsenic in drinking water. Standards, immediately adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO), are also included in textbooks.

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Wu Mingxian further pointed out that Chen Jianren has also made great contributions to molecular epidemiology, preventing diseases through gene and virus host gene analysis. He pointed out that after the invention of the hepatitis B vaccine, many people who have not been vaccinated have hepatitis B virus. How to accurately identify potential patients for drug administration was a big problem at that time. At that time, Chen Jianren found that the higher the concentration of hepatitis B virus in the blood, the higher the risk of suffering from end-stage liver disease (cirrhosis, liver cancer, etc.), and this finding was also written into the global textbooks Yang Huaiyi, an associate researcher at the Genome Center of the Academia Sinica, further pointed out that thanks to Chen Jianren’s research, through screening to identify potential high-risk patients and then administering the drug, according to statistics from global scholars, a total of 75% of the incidence of end-stage liver disease was reduced, which is equivalent to 100 Individuals may get end-stage liver cancer. According to Chen Jianren's research, 75 people can be free from liver cancer, greatly reduce medical expenses, and improve the quality of life of the people.

World-class contribution to the field of cancer to benefit all mankind

Chen Jianren's contributions to the epidemiology of gastric cancer, head and neck cancer, and nasopharyngeal cancer are also world-class. Wu Mingxian said that pylori is the main cause of gastric cancer, but there was no international guidance on how to sterilize and prevent gastric cancer. Chen Jianren led the team The method of sterilization was proposed, and gastric cancer screening was promoted in Matsu, Changhua, and aboriginal communities, which greatly reduced the incidence of gastric cancer in these places.

Wu Mingxian said that Chen Jianren has made great contributions to the improvement of global human health and well-being, and his research has been included in global textbooks and medical clinical guidelines in Europe, America and Asia. Chen Chien-jen served as the post-Governor administration, but his academic achievements must not be discredited. He also said that Chen Chien-jen's research has long been applied clinically, benefiting people and ethnic groups regardless of nationality or race. Moreover, Chen Chien-jen led a team to establish a Taiwanese community to track the health of generations for a long time. Research is also the only remaining fruit in the world.

As for KMT legislator Wang Hongwei's smearing of plagiarism in Chen Jianren's 2006 paper, Wu Mingxian bluntly stated that when the paper was jointly submitted to a journal by several authors, during the review stage it was found that some paragraphs did not indicate the source of the citation or rephrased, and corrected it immediately , It was also published in the journal "Cancer" later, and the National Taiwan University Ethics Association also believed that it was an unintentional mistake. It is a deliberate pan-politicization move to attack this.

Wu Mingxian, president of National Taiwan University Hospital, said in an interview with reporters that the contribution of Chen Chien-jen's research has benefited people all over the world. It is regrettable that the politicians who attack Chen Chien-jen's academic research have only color in their eyes and political struggles in their heads. "Taiwan will not progress in this way!" (File photo, reporter Liu Xinde photo)