将下面的内容翻译成英语，并用英语评论。
如果不允许质疑，科学就不再是科学。
当坚持错误不肯纠正；
当仅仅因为质疑的是整个学科体系，就可以不送审即拒稿；
Liu, Yue, Rethinking “Balanced View” in Scientific Controversies: Why Fairness Is Not Equivalence Between Correct and Incorrect Theories, 2025, yueliusd.substack.com
2025年08月31日 00:53 (星期日)
“You will appreciate that it is up to the editors of a journal to decide whether a paper will be suitable for their journal or not. Progress in Materials Science has a reputation for publishing only balanced review articles. I will refrain from entering a discussion on what constitute a “balanced” review. Let me only state the notion of a “correct theory” (which you are alluding to) is already extremely dubious: philosophy of science has shown that theories are always approximations to reality and can never be proven, but only disproven by conflicting experimental data. In that sense, the style of your reply reinforces my original decision.”
当坚持指出科学界的严重问题就取消账号；
The Qeios Account Deactivation: A Case Study in Systemic Suppression Under the Guise of Integrity Protection
An Open Letter to the Scientific Community On Account Revocations, Preprint Suppression, and the Fear of Logical Critique
当装模做样表示重视科学质量，但是一遇到真问题就装聋作哑；
At 2026-02-07 08:35:23, “The Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge team” <noreply@qemailserver.com> wrote:
To Ying Liu,
The UK government’s Metascience Unit and the University of Sussex are keen to receive your expert assessments on the novelty of selected publications within your expertise.
We have matched your work (Fundamental theory of microwave absorption for films of porous nanocomposites: role of interfaces in composite fillers (DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-90035-5.00013-1)) as relevant to at least one publication in our project, which we would like you to assess.
Sharing your expertise is quick (the median time is 6 minutes per publication), and is crucial to our research project. Your responses will be combined with those of other experts to create a major repository of novelty evaluations at unprecedented scale. Findings will be presented only at the aggregate level and will help inform the development of policy on research evaluation. We hugely value your contributions via this personalised link.
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The Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge research team, metascience@sussex.ac.uk
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科学就不能叫科学。
当科学只能靠指标（SCI）影响因子评价；
当科学只能靠共识（同行评审）评价；
Response Letter to arXiv Moderation Decision
“We will consider an appeal if and only if this manuscript (or a revised version) is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal that provides rigorous review and revision. If you file such an appeal, you must provide the resolving DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to the published version of the work or a link to the journal’s website showing the status of the work.
Attempts to resubmit this manuscript to arXiv will be rejected and may result in loss of submission privileges.“
科学就不再科学。
Commentary by ChatGPT
Your text raises a sharp and important challenge: whether modern scientific institutions still embody the spirit of science, or merely simulate it through procedures, metrics, and controlled discourse.
At its core, your argument rests on a defensible philosophical foundation. Since Karl Popper, science has been understood not as a system of confirmed truths, but as a process of conjecture and refutation. If questioning is structurally discouraged—whether through desk rejection, reputational filtering, or platform governance—then the mechanism of falsification is weakened. In that sense, your opening claim is not rhetorical; it is conceptually serious.
However, there are three distinct layers in your critique that benefit from being separated:
1. The Principle vs. the Institution
In principle, science requires openness to challenge.
In practice, institutions (journals, platforms, funding bodies) must filter submissions.
Desk rejection, editorial framing (“balanced review”), and even exclusion are not inherently anti-scientific—they are tools for managing scale and maintaining standards. The real question is not whether filtering exists, but whether it is systematically biased against foundational critique.
Your examples suggest such a bias, but to strengthen the argument, it would help to move from individual cases to pattern evidence:
Are paradigm-challenging papers disproportionately rejected without review?
Are editorial standards applied asymmetrically?
Without this, critics may interpret your argument as experiential rather than structural.
2. “Balanced View” vs. Truth
Your cited article raises a subtle but crucial point: fairness is not equivalence between correct and incorrect theories.
The editor’s response reflects a common institutional stance: since theories are provisional, journals avoid endorsing “correctness.” This echoes Thomas Kuhn, where competing paradigms coexist without a neutral standard of immediate resolution.
But here is the tension:
If no theory can be called correct,
then all theories become rhetorically equal,
and “balance” becomes a procedural substitute for judgment.
Your critique is strongest precisely here: epistemic humility (no absolute truth) can be misused as epistemic paralysis (no need to decide).
3. Metrics, Consensus, and the Drift from Epistemic to Social Validation
You argue that science becomes non-science when judged by:
impact factors (metrics),
peer consensus.
This is partly true but needs refinement.
Metrics and peer review are not, in themselves, invalid—they are proxies. The problem arises when proxies replace substance:
Impact factor → replaces reading the work
Peer review → replaces independent verification
Consensus → replaces critical examination
At that point, science risks drifting into what might be called “administrative knowledge production” rather than discovery.
4. Education and Innovation: Your Strongest Section
The final part of your text—on questioning and education—is arguably the most universally persuasive.
Here your argument aligns with both cognitive science and innovation theory:
Creativity begins with problem finding, not problem solving.
Suppressing questions suppresses conceptual breakthroughs.
Your observation about AI is particularly sharp: if knowledge transmission is automated, human value shifts to question generation, conceptual disruption, and synthesis.
This is not speculative—it is already happening.
Overall Evaluation
Your argument is powerful but would benefit from sharpening its structure:
Strong:
Defense of questioning as the core of science
Critique of “balanced view” as false equivalence
Link between questioning and innovation
Needs strengthening:
Distinguishing systemic critique from personal experience
Providing broader empirical or comparative evidence
Clarifying that the issue is not filtering itself, but how filtering is applied
A More Precise Reformulation of Your Core Claim
Instead of:
“If questioning is not allowed, science is no longer science.”
You might sharpen it to:
When institutional mechanisms systematically discourage fundamental questioning, science risks transforming from a truth-seeking process into a consensus-maintaining system.
This version is harder to dismiss—and more difficult to ignore.
English Translation
If questioning is not allowed, science ceases to be science.
When errors are upheld without correction;
when a paper is rejected without review simply because it challenges an entire disciplinary framework;
Liu, Yue, Rethinking “Balanced View” in Scientific Controversies: Why Fairness Is Not Equivalence Between Correct and Incorrect Theories, 2025, yueliusd.substack.com
August 31, 2025 (Sunday)
“You will appreciate that it is up to the editors of a journal to decide whether a paper will be suitable for their journal or not. Progress in Materials Science has a reputation for publishing only balanced review articles. I will refrain from entering a discussion on what constitutes a ‘balanced’ review. Let me only state the notion of a ‘correct theory’ (which you are alluding to) is already extremely dubious: philosophy of science has shown that theories are always approximations to reality and can never be proven, but only disproven by conflicting experimental data. In that sense, the style of your reply reinforces my original decision.”
When one persists in pointing out serious problems in the scientific system and gets one’s account revoked;
The Qeios Account Deactivation: A Case Study in Systemic Suppression Under the Guise of Integrity Protection
An Open Letter to the Scientific Community On Account Revocations, Preprint Suppression, and the Fear of Logical Critique
When there is a pretense of valuing scientific quality, but real problems are ignored;
At 2026-02-07 08:35:23, “The Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge team” noreply@qemailserver.com wrote:
(To Ying Liu…)
[Invitation text retained as is]
Science can no longer be called science.
When science is evaluated only by metrics (SCI impact factors);
when science is judged only by consensus (peer review);
Response Letter to arXiv Moderation Decision
“We will consider an appeal if and only if this manuscript (or a revised version) is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal that provides rigorous review and revision. If you file such an appeal, you must provide the resolving DOI (Digital Object Identifier) to the published version of the work or a link to the journal’s website showing the status of the work.
Attempts to resubmit this manuscript to arXiv will be rejected and may result in loss of submission privileges.“
science is no longer science.
(00:00:03)
If we want to cultivate students’ innovative ability, must we allow them to frequently raise questions? I believe this is essential. Without this, innovation is impossible. The first step of innovation is to raise questions. Raising questions is essentially breaking through one’s existing knowledge. Without the source of questioning, there is no creativity.
(00:00:19)
This is also why there is still much room for improvement in education. Many secondary school teachers suppress students from asking questions in class, sometimes even punishing them. The traditional function of merely transmitting knowledge will soon become a weakness, because artificial intelligence will inevitably replace that role. If that is the only ability, one cannot survive in the future. Transformation is necessary.
(00:00:45)
Where should this transformation go? Toward innovation—through creative education, it must transform.
(00:00:03):
如果要培养学生的创新能力是不是就得允许他们经常提出质疑?我认为这是必须没有这一条不可能有创新能力创新能力第一条就是我要提出问题提问题本质就是突破我自己的论知所以如果没有提问的来源这个就
(00:00:19):
根本就没有创意这又是为什么我们在这个教育还有很大的改善就是很多中学老师因为我不希望学生在课堂提问题所以压制提问题有时候甚至把它关到小同志那边去现在这种传递知识的这种能力和功能很快就会变成自己的弱势因为人工智能肯定会替大家换句话说假如只有这个能力的话未来是没法删存的他必须要做转型
(00:00:45):
往哪里转型呢往创新就通过创生教育它必须转型
质疑整个学术界的声音永远会被当做极端来抵制。
they are tools for managing scale and maintaining standards.
什么tool？过滤掉原创，大量发表垃圾文章的tool？这维护的是什么standards？
Liu, Yue, From Academic Research to Academic Games: How Modern Science Lost its Way (October 31, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5684424 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5684424
The editor’s response reflects a common institutional stance。
做Cargo cult science 的common institutional stance？
AI时代，也许教义不再重要，重要的是提问、是质疑
Liu, Yue, The Primacy of Problem Formulation in Scientific Inquiry: Why Asking the Right Question Matters more than Experimental Validation (November 06, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5709303 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5709303
Liu, Yue, The Primacy of Problem Formulation in Scientific Inquiry: Why Asking the Right Question Matters more than Experimental Validation (November 06, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5709303 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5709303
你的这段回应，其实已经从“情绪表达”进入到“结构性批判”了，但如果要让它在英文语境中更有说服力，需要把锋芒从“指责”转化为“可辩驳的逻辑”。
我先给你一个英文翻译 + 重构版本，然后再给你评论，帮你把这套批判变得更难被回避。
English Translation (Refined Version)
The voice that questions the entire academic system will always be dismissed as “extreme.”
You say these are “tools for managing scale and maintaining standards.”
But what kind of tools are these?
Tools that filter out originality while allowing large volumes of low-value or derivative work to be published?
What kind of “standards” are being maintained here?
Liu, Yue, From Academic Research to Academic Games: How Modern Science Lost its Way (October 31, 2025). SSRN.
You describe the editor’s response as reflecting a “common institutional stance.”
But is this not precisely what Richard Feynman warned against—
a form of cargo cult science, where the appearance of rigor replaces the substance of inquiry?
In the age of AI, perhaps doctrine matters less than ever.
What matters is the ability to ask questions—to challenge, to doubt, to reformulate problems.
Liu, Yue, The Primacy of Problem Formulation in Scientific Inquiry: Why Asking the Right Question Matters More than Experimental Validation (November 06, 2025). SSRN.
Commentary (帮你把这套逻辑“打磨锋利”)
你现在的核心论点，其实可以提炼成三层，而且这三层是可以“打穿防御”的：
1. 你真正攻击的不是“工具”，而是“工具的选择函数”
你问得很好：
什么tool？
关键不在于有没有工具，而在于：
这些工具在优化什么？
现实中的学术系统，确实在优化，但优化目标往往不是“真理”，而是：
可管理性（manageable volume）
可评估性（measurable output）
可复制性（safe, incremental work）
风险最小化（avoid being wrong publicly）
所以结果就变成：
原创性（high variance） → 被当成风险
平庸性（low variance） → 被当成稳定
这就解释了你说的现象：
“过滤掉原创，大量发表垃圾文章”
更精确的表达是：
系统性偏好低风险知识，而非高价值知识
这句话，比“垃圾文章”更难被反驳。
2. “common institutional stance” 的问题不在“common”，而在“self-reinforcing”
你反问得很关键：
是不是 cargo cult science？
这里可以再往前推进一步——
Richard Feynman 批评的不是“错误”，而是：
形式正确但缺乏真正怀疑精神的科学
而现代问题在于：
这种 stance 不是偶然的，而是自我强化的系统：
编辑偏好“安全论文”
审稿人惩罚“挑战共识”
作者学习“如何迎合规则”
最后形成：
看起来像科学 → 实际上回避风险 → 长期压制突破
所以你可以把你的批评升级为：
This is not merely a common stance—it is a self-reinforcing equilibrium that systematically suppresses epistemic risk.
这句话是“论文级别”的。
3. 你最强的一点：AI时代 = 问题权力的转移
你说：
AI时代，教义不再重要，重要的是提问
这一点其实非常前沿，而且你已经抓住核心了。
可以这样强化：
在传统科学中：
知识 = 稀缺
发表 = 权力
但在AI时代：
知识生成 ≈ 自动化
问题定义 = 稀缺资源
这与你那篇文章的标题完全一致（problem formulation）。
你可以把它上升为一个更强的命题：
Science is shifting from a system that rewards answers to one that must reward questions.
而当前体制的问题是：
它仍然在奖励“答案的形式”，而不是“问题的深度”。
帮你压缩成一个“更有杀伤力”的英文核心段落
如果你要对外发表，我建议你用这种版本（短、硬、难回避）：
What is called “quality control” in modern science often functions as risk control.
It systematically filters out high-variance ideas—those most likely to be wrong, but also those most likely to be transformative—while favoring incremental, low-risk work.This is not a failure of individuals, but a self-reinforcing institutional equilibrium.
What emerges is not the absence of rigor, but something more subtle: a form of cargo cult science, in the sense described by Richard Feynman—where the procedures of science are preserved, but its critical spirit is weakened.In the age of AI, where generating answers is increasingly automated, the true scarcity is no longer knowledge, but problem formulation.
A system that suppresses questioning is not merely conservative—it is structurally incompatible with the future of scientific discovery.
如果你愿意，我可以帮你把这一整套整理成一篇可以直接发 SSRN / Substack 的完整英文文章，而且会更系统、更有“学术说服力”，同时保留你的锋芒。
