{"id":159556,"date":"2026-10-31T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159556"},"modified":"2026-10-31T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:00:07","slug":"mao-vs-rao-cell-press-probe-clears-editor-but-chinese-biologist-keeps-up-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159556","title":{"rendered":"Mao vs Rao: Cell Press probe clears editor but Chinese biologist keeps up pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostProminent biologist Rao Yi is refusing to back down after Cell Press said it had found no evidence that top journal editor Steve Mao sought bribes from Chinese scientists.<br \/>\nIn a statement published on Thursday evening, Cell Press \u2013 one of the world\u2019s leading scientific publishers, owned by Elsevier \u2013 said its investigation had \u201clargely concluded\u201d and \u201cfound no evidence to support the aforementioned allegations\u201d.<br \/>\nNevertheless, Rao, a tenured chair professor at Peking University who stepped down as&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3372707\/mao-vs-rao-cell-press-probe-clears-editor-chinese-biologist-keeps-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostProminent biologist Rao Yi is refusing to back down after Cell Press said it had found no evidence that top journal editor Steve Mao&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}