著名生物学家饶毅在Cell Press表示未发现顶级期刊编辑毛锋（Steve Mao）向中国科学家索贿的证据后，拒绝收回指控。
Prominent 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.
Cell Press——全球领先的科学出版商之一，隶属于爱思唯尔——于周四晚间发布声明称，其调查已“大体结束”，且“未发现证据支持上述指控”。
In a statement published on Thursday evening, Cell Press – one of the world’s leading scientific publishers, owned by Elsevier – said its investigation had “largely concluded” and “found no evidence to support the aforementioned allegations”.
然而，作为北京大学终身讲席教授、去年卸任首都医科大学校长的饶毅，坚持对《Cancer Cell》（癌症细胞）主编的批评。
Nevertheless, Rao, a tenured chair professor at Peking University who stepped down as president of Capital Medical University last year, is maintaining his criticism of the journal Cancer Cell’s editor-in-chief.
“这当然是我预料到的结果，因为爱思唯尔没有报警，”饶毅周五上午在社交媒体发文写道。“但如果他继续担任主编，将是爱思唯尔的灾难。”他接着写道，毛锋面临两个选择：“辞去《Cancer Cell》主编职务，且永不再担任编辑” 或 “起诉我诽谤”。
“This is of course the result I expected, because Elsevier did not report it to the police,” Rao wrote in a social media post on Friday morning. “However, if he stays as the Editor in Chief, it will be a disaster for Elsevier.”He went on to write that Mao faced two options: “resign as editor-in-chief of Cancer Cell and never serve as an editor again” or “sue me for defamation”.
“如果他不敢起诉，就是毛锋自己承认确实有问题，”饶毅补充道，但未提供证据支持其主张。
“If he does not dare to sue, it is an admission by Steve Mao himself that there is actually a problem,” Rao added, without providing evidence to support his claims.
《南华早报》联系饶毅寻求更多细节，但未收到对其提问的直接回复。
The South China Morning Post reached out to Rao seeking further details but received no direct response to our questions.
在10月中旬的一条社交媒体帖子中，饶毅称“几个重要的国际学术期刊出现了编辑、甚至主编索贿受贿的情况”。
In a social media post in mid-October, Rao said that “several important international academic journals have seen editors, and even editors-in-chief, soliciting and accepting bribes”.
他随后笼统提及一个案例，声称一名医生曾“行贿”编辑以在期刊上发表论文，指称报价为“首付200万人民币（约合29.9万美元）”。
He went on to broadly refer to a case in which he claimed a doctor had “bribed” an editor to secure publication in a journal, alleging a quoted price of “an initial payment of 2 million yuan (US$299,000)”.
随后，饶毅点名出生于中国的《Cancer Cell》主编毛锋——该同行评审医学期刊由Cell Press出版——卷入受贿指控。
Rao then singled out Mao, the Chinese-born editor-in-chief of Cancer Cell – a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Cell Press – in the bribery allegations.
“中国的各个组织和各种评价机构应该知道，很多人认为毛锋有严重问题，”饶毅说。这迅速促使Cell Press展开调查。
“Organisations and various assessment bodies in China should be aware that many people believe Steve Mao has serious issues,” Rao said. This quickly prompted an investigation by Cell Press.
10月16日，该出版商在其官方社交媒体平台之一上宣布，已“启动相关程序并委托外部独立第三方进行全面调查”。
On October 16, the publisher announced on one of its official social media platforms that it had “initiated the relevant procedures and commissioned an external, independent third party to conduct a comprehensive investigation”.
在其最新声明中，Cell Press表示，已依据“国际公认的最佳实践和证据标准”进行了调查。
In its latest announcement, Cell Press stated that it had conducted the investigation in accordance with “internationally accepted best practice and evidentiary standards”.
该出版商称，调查过程包括对期刊工作人员、编辑人员及主编进行访谈，以及收集、提取和审查其内部和外部通信记录。编辑记录也与历史出版决策相关的统计数据一并进行了分析。
The process included interviews of journal staff, editorial personnel and the editor-in-chief, along with gathering, extracting and reviewing his internal and external communication records, the publisher said. Editorial records were also analysed alongside statistical data related to historical publishing decisions.
在未点名Rao的情况下，该出版商表示，其调查组已邀请提出指控的个人提供支持其主张的证据，但“未收到任何能够证实相关指控的证据”。《南华早报》也已联系毛某寻求置评。
Without naming Rao, the publisher said its investigation team had invited the individual who raised the allegations to provide evidence supporting his claims but had “received no evidence capable of substantiating the relevant allegations”. The SCMP has also reached out to Mao seeking comment on the matter.
一位熟悉毛某的科学家告诉《南华早报》，据他所知，毛某在财务记录方面非常有条理，这使得记录很容易核实。
A scientist familiar with Mao told the SCMP that, to his knowledge, Mao is highly organised with his financial records, making them very easy to verify.
这位要求匿名的消息人士补充道：“如果[毛某]真的收了那么多钱，他的银行流水怎么可能查不出来？”
The source, who requested anonymity, added: “If [Mao] truly received that much money, how could it not show up in his bank statements?”