Professor Li Meijin of the Chinese People's Public Security University

Professor Li Meijin is Third Commissioner police officer, Lead Graduate Adviser of Chinese People's Public Security University. Professor Li was educated by the Chinese People's University (now used the name of Renmin University). Professor Li barely made this list after she provide legal analysis for a CCTV program regarding a high profile homicide case. A young mother was run over by a car. The driver noticed she was still alive, he then drew a knife and killer her. The driver was subdued by witnesses who saw the case. Professor Li argued, the driver did not intend to kill. Because the driver studied piano, he must be repeating what he used to do, pressing the keys - an obsessive-compulsive disorder, when he struck the knife 8 times into the young woman's body. Professor Li equates the murder with playing piano. Genius! Readers should not be surprised. Professor was among few who agreed with Professor Sun Dongdong of Beijing University when he said 99% of people who appeal official decisions were mentally ill.

Professor Li is a nobody, comparing to her peers on this list. However, she should thank to the broad social impact of this case which brought her the 5 minutes of fame. While many criticized her behavior, the long last effect of this case would be remembered as new record on how low an educated person would go in front of public eyes.

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Professor Xu Xinrong of Zhejiang University

Professor Xu Xinrong is Associate Dean of the Animal Science College of Zhejiang University of Zhejiang Province. Professor Xu is also the director of Insitute of Feed Science of Zhejiang University and the Vice Chair of the national Animal Biochemical Association.

Professor Xu made this list for his pioneering role in introducing the clenbuterol, CLB into China after taking a short visit to University of Virginia. It would be classified as a mis-step in academic research, which happens all the time, if Professor Xu had not confessed to the media that his group intentionally hide the side-effect when introducing the toxic material to be used in animal feed in China. In 2009, he explained to the media that, while at the time of 1990s the government was promoting lean pig, they felt they "shouldn't tell the other side of the story. Had they wrote about the side-effect of CLB, they wouldn't be able to publish their papers".

After exposed by the Consumer Day event on March 15, 2011, CLB usages had fomented in the last 2 weeks to a national scandal, and amounted to the largest food safety incident following the melamine milk of 2008. The incident brought to light how a big meat producer along government officials ignored obvious signs of safety violations. Alike the Sanlun melamine milk case, when the New Zealand based Fonterra owns 43% of Sunlun Diary, this time the meat producer Shuanghui (Shineway Group) of Henan Province was heavily invested and held by the Goldman Sachs of the US. The common traits of the worst public safety incidents are scientist, government, and a foreign company.

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