How Chairman Mao's secret military project led to a Nobel Prize

I won a Nobel prize, did Youyou Tu?

The “Four Olds” : habits, culture and ideas

Nobody expects the Chinese Revolution!

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It was ever so

"the Communist party-state needed the scientific elite for certain political and practical purposes...foreign relations.. "

One example among many, that organizations are often prepared to compromise their belief system to promote their belief system.

A cheerful start to Monday.

Did the Nobel prize for physics goto YoYo too?

In her later career she created the in-house fashion label for Sainsbury's supermarket.

A bit quacky

proving the properties of Chinese herbal remedies using the Western scientific method.

With all due respect to Professor Tu, the interpretation that she proved anything useful about Chinese herbal remedies is mistaken. She and her team looked at the literature regarding traditional remedies which were claimed to have fever-fighting properties of some sort, and out of the 2000 they were able to identify less than a third were subsequently determined to have any measurable effect in that regard. That's not a good hit rate for any system of medicine.

There are already enough crooks and sadly deluded people on the Internet quacking on about how Tu has validated traditional Chinese medicine. Please don't encourage anyone to go down that route.

one among many

Ever heard the term antibiotics? It is the use of biological substances occurring naturally to prevent or cure disease and illness. Quinine taken from the bark of a tree was used for malaria and standard G.I. issue for years. Jungle warfare school taught other means including mosquito nets, repellents and simple smearing of mud. If this research was due to the Vietnam War it was more likely the Chinese seeking evidence of U.S. germ warfare or them seeking an extra virulent strain of malaria. The NAZI's had an extensive program seeking natural substances for foul means. Saddam Hussein's Iraq had a similar program. Both of which caused Jewish researchers at the university at Tel Aviv to do substantial research into these substances. With Korea and Vietnam long being viewed by the Chinese as inferior buffer colonies and long standing hatred of these countries for the Chinese, it is difficult to believe the Chinese had a sudden concern for the people. The Chinese concern was in all probability less than noble and it is curious why the committee would choose to assign benevolent cause to anything Maoist did.