Professor Li Keji of Beijing University

Professor Li made himself under the spot light after he made a statement at a public event sponsored by Maotai, a top Chinese liquor producer, affirming that additives such as Melamine and Plasticizer were safe for human consumption.

It's no secret that many Chinese liquor is blended by industrial material. However, it has been unthinkable to the public until recently that even top level brand, such as Maotai, and Jiugui (drunk ghost) did the same. Also it had been a secret on how to make a one year liquor taste like 60 years liquor, in other words, how to make the liquor taste 'rich (thinker and heavier)'. Both 'Jiugui' and 'Maotail' have been tested to contain unreasonably high volume of plasticizer.

Professor Li argued that tea, coffee and cell phone signals are all cancer causing sources, and that melamine and plasticizer are also cancer causing sources. If people can drink tea, than they can drink plasticizer. Professor Li also challenged the safety standard published by the Health Department on plasticizer in food. "All experiments so far were on rats, and the data were scaled to human," said Li, "before a human experiment on plasticizer, the standard was not usable."

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Professor Chen Xingliang of Beijing University

Professor Chen Xingliang is the Chair of the Academic Committee of the Law School of Beijing University. Vice Chair of Chinese Criminal Law Association, Vice Chair of Chinese Judicial Procedure Association.

As a full time tenured professor in a public university, and not a practicing lawyer, Chen took bribe from criminal organization and offer obviously biased opinion in the form of amicus curiae in the Changshu migrant farmer self-defense case. The act was uncovered when an article authored by Chen was published by the Post of People's Court.

Professor Chen's act is particularly egregious in this case because he knowingly put a few innocent defenseless migrant workers behind bars. Professor Chen must have strong hearts, to frame people with names, faces, families and kids, who walk and talk in such a splendid way. Pocketing from bad policy aside, not even every corrupt officials are willing to put harms on real people.

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Professor Sun Dongdong of Beijing University

Professor Sun Dongdong is the Director of Forensics in Beijing University. In an article published in the Chinese News Week (3/23/2009), Sun stated that over 99% appellants who who complain mistreated by government are mentally insane, and they should be locked up in mental facilities for their own benefit. In real world China, many political dissidents had been locked in mental facilities to bypass media attention of a regular trail.

In an early unrelated interview taken at Sina.com after the outbreak of Poisoned Sunlu Mike incident, Sun blamed the media for breaking up the story, and opposed to compensating victims. He was interviewed because he was named to be on the national investigation task force.

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