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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20, 2011 @11:11AM

An anonymous reader writes "Political and territorial disputes were leaking to scientific venues like Nature, Science and Climatic Change. Many recent scientific papers submitted to these journals promoted the highly disputed Chinese U-shaped line. One of the author refused to change her map after being requested by the journals, stating that that her published map was requested by the Chinese government.

This practice was condemned by Nature in their latest editorial pledging that political maps that seek to advance disputed territorial claims have no place in scientific papers."
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I was expecting another Top Gun-like post (Score:1)

by unclos1982 (2489688) writes:

... but this is no less amusing.

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China used scientific papers to promote its territ

I was expecting another Top Gun-like post (Score:1)