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This situation points to an increasingly clear body of evidence that he misinterprets data - either due to his lack of speaking/reading Chinese or knowingly. F

This situation points to an increasingly clear body of evidence that he misinterprets data - either due to his lack of speaking/reading Chinese or knowingly. For example, check out the IUD section showing his sleight of hand here: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher/ https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-...

hkmaxpro 6y ago
Thanks for your source. Let me assess how much of his conclusions and the conclusions in the news reporting are affected, assuming the Grayzone article is correct. I just take a random article from CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/21/asia/xinjiang-china-response-sterilization-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/21/asia/xinjiang-china-respo... One paragraph is affected: “there were almost 1,000 new IUD implants per 100,000 people in Xinjiang in 2018, or 80% of China's total for that year”. The rest of the CNN article seems correct and unrelated to Zenz’s work. This CNN article also says “Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year […]” There is still no satisfactory explanation for such a sudden drop in birth rate, other than a forcible suppression of birth since 2017. And there are other sources that corroborate the birth suppression claim, such as this teacher [0] and numerous detainees [1][2][3][4][5]. Also, not every claim related to Zenz is in dispute. Consider this claim from a random APN News article: https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c > “Budget documents obtained by Zenz show that […] While sterilization rates plunged in the rest of the country, they surged seven-fold in Xinjiang from 2016 to 2018, to more than 60,000 procedures” This claim is not refuted by the Grayzone article. Zenz may have made “local mistakes”, but not global ones that severely impact the major conclusions of his works or in news reporting. Further, so far I have only seen one website (Grayzone) criticizing Zenz’s work, but not peer-reviewed papers or criticism from the larger research community. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/muslim-minority-teacher-50-tells-of-forced-sterilisation-in-xinjiang-china https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/muslim-minorit... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-china-sterilisation-women-internment-camps-xinjiang-a9054641.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071 [3] https://www.dw.com/en/china-uighur-women-reportedly-sterilized-in-attempt-to-suppress-population/a-54018051 https://www.dw.com/en/china-uighur-women-reportedly-steriliz... [4] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Xinjiang-What-China-shows-world-vs.-what-former-detainee-describes https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Xinjiang-What-China-shows-w... [5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/abortions-iuds-and-sexual-humiliation-muslim-women-who-fled-china-for-kazakhstan-recount-ordeals/2019/10/04/551c2658-cfd2-11e9-a620-0a91656d7db6_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/abortions-...

hkmaxpro 6y ago

Thanks for your source. Let me assess how much of his conclusions and the conclusions in the news reporting are affected, assuming the Grayzone article is correct. I just take a random article from CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/21/asia/xinjiang-china-response-sterilization-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/21/asia/xinjiang-china-respo... One paragraph is affected: “there were almost 1,000 new IUD implants per 100,000 people in Xinjiang in 2018, or 80% of China's total for that year”. The rest of the CNN article seems correct and unrelated to Zenz’s work. This CNN article also says “Chinese officials have officially acknowledged birth rates in Xinjiang dropped by almost a third in 2018, compared to the previous year […]” There is still no satisfactory explanation for such a sudden drop in birth rate, other than a forcible suppression of birth since 2017. And there are other sources that corroborate the birth suppression claim, such as this teacher [0] and numerous detainees [1][2][3][4][5]. Also, not every claim related to Zenz is in dispute. Consider this claim from a random APN News article: https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c > “Budget documents obtained by Zenz show that […] While sterilization rates plunged in the rest of the country, they surged seven-fold in Xinjiang from 2016 to 2018, to more than 60,000 procedures” This claim is not refuted by the Grayzone article. Zenz may have made “local mistakes”, but not global ones that severely impact the major conclusions of his works or in news reporting. Further, so far I have only seen one website (Grayzone) criticizing Zenz’s work, but not peer-reviewed papers or criticism from the larger research community. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/muslim-minority-teacher-50-tells-of-forced-sterilisation-in-xinjiang-china https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/04/muslim-minorit... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-china-sterilisation-women-internment-camps-xinjiang-a9054641.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uighur-muslim-... [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55794071 [3] https://www.dw.com/en/china-uighur-women-reportedly-sterilized-in-attempt-to-suppress-population/a-54018051 https://www.dw.com/en/china-uighur-women-reportedly-steriliz... [4] https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Xinjiang-What-China-shows-world-vs.-what-former-detainee-describes https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Xinjiang-What-China-shows-w... [5] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/abortions-iuds-and-sexual-humiliation-muslim-women-who-fled-china-for-kazakhstan-recount-ordeals/2019/10/04/551c2658-cfd2-11e9-a620-0a91656d7db6_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/abortions-...