A 2021 journalistic profile of Liang Zhongtang attributes to him a methodological, not just chronological, dismissal of Song Jian's population-cybernetics work as pseudo-science

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A 2021 profile of Liang Zhongtang, covering his career from 1979 to the 2015 two-child-policy reform, republished by China Digital Times after censorship of the original platform, states in its own voice: "He also opposed Song Jian's 'cybernetics of population control,' viewing it as pretentious pseudo-science, hastily calculated, that failed to account for many real-world factors." This is reported speech — the profile's characterization of Liang's view, not a direct quotation from Liang — and is not sourced to either Liang's 2009 essay or this capture's other sources.

The characterization sharpens what the vault already has. The 2009 essay's "arrow loosed from the bow" argument (see claim-liang-2009-frames-song-jian-as-propagandist-not-originator) is about timing — the policy predates Song's projections. This profile attributes to Liang a methodological dismissal — the projections themselves are bad science — extending, without duplicating, the existing "propagandist, not originator" reading with a different angle: method quality rather than causal sequence.