fictionpage Chapter 474 A Big Earthquake In The Academic Circle!
Chapter 474 A Big Earthquake In The Academic Circle!
The popularity of the news remains high!
Song He walked back and forth in the laboratory, watching his subordinates advance neuropeptide research. When he got tired of staring, he took out his mobile phone and glanced at it. The news headlines popped up one after another, denser than raindrops.
Public opinion is quite mixed. Although he has announced the calculation process, it is still 30-70.
Thirty percent of netizens support Song He, and 70% of netizens support Kim Soon Rok, at least according to the comment section.
"Outrageous." Song He couldn't help complaining.
He originally thought that if the complete calculation process was announced, even if he couldn't make an instant comeback, he would at least be able to split public opinion into a 50-50 split.
Unexpectedly, there was not even a splash, and the online public opinion was completely ignored.
One day after the calculation process was announced, Song He's cell phone suddenly received a series of notifications.
First, a tip from Frontier University of Science and Technology:
[The results of your top-issue paper on "Neuropeptides" have been accepted by the school! 】
[Your class credits in Liao Xingxue’s Grade B class have increased to 90 points, and there are only 10 points left to be promoted to Grade A class. Please keep up your efforts! 】
[Your total undergraduate credits at Frontier University of Science and Technology have increased to 55 points! 】
Then there are the tips from the Moon City Project:
[The results of your "Neuropeptide" top-issue paper have passed preliminary acceptance and you will be awarded 5,000 points! 】
[After further acceptance, more points will be reissued! 】
The total points of the Moon City Plan have increased to 405,780 points!
Song He looked at the phone thoughtfully.
Before he could think of anything, another news came in.
Xiang Xiaotong: "I calculated the calculation process you published. You are right. Jin Shunlu is wrong. I reported it."
Xiang Xiaotong: "To be honest, your performance has always surprised me. You can beat Jin Shunlu's team in our first match. You have become a success."
Song He suddenly realized, "Thank you, teacher! It's a pity that online public opinion has not changed."
Xiang Xiaotong: "Of course it won't change. The victory or defeat between you and Jin Shunlu is no longer a simple academic dispute, but an international issue. A large number of trolls will attack you at their own pace. The money spent on the public opinion war is not in vain."
Song He: "Aren't they afraid of backlash? In the end, the academic community gradually recognized the truth and realized that I was right and Kim Soon-rok was wrong. Wouldn't it be that public opinion would backlash?"
Xiang Xiaotong: "It's too naive. By then, the heat will have passed and no one will pay attention to this matter anymore. Most people will have the impression that if you lose, the purpose of the navy will be achieved."
Song He was stunned, with a shocked expression on his face, "So, teacher, what you are saying is that I was obviously right this time, but I lost the public opinion war?"
Xiang Xiaotong: "That's right."
He stared at the phone and was stunned. He felt unbelievable for a moment. He had heard similar things before, but when it happened to him, he still felt it was very outrageous.
In broad daylight, everything is clear, and the evidence is published in black and white. How can we still lose the war of public opinion? So actually winning or losing in the public opinion war has nothing to do with the truth?
Song He: "Is there no way to reverse public opinion?"
Xiang Xiaotong: "There is little hope. Our public opinion has always been very weak, unless there is some small probability event."
Song He: "What small probability event?"
Xiang Xiaotong: "How do I know? Silly boy, the small probability event here is a euphemism for miracle!"
He sighed in frustration. Miracles were indeed very unlikely and almost impossible.
There is no other way. If the public opinion loses this time, let’s lose. Promote neuropeptide research as soon as possible. Next time, we can be the first to avenge our shame.
Song He put away his mobile phone and continued to inspect the laboratory. In fact, public praise and criticism have no influence at all. Science is materialistic, and technological achievements will not disappear just because netizens sing bad words.
That's all I can do to comfort myself.
…
Three days later, a miracle happened!
At two o'clock in the middle of the night, Song He had just slept for half an hour when suddenly a pair of hands grabbed him and shook him violently.
"Boss, boss, boss! Good news!" Fan Tao knelt beside the bed, her face flushed with excitement.
Song He opened one eyelid with difficulty and put on a mask of pain.
He slept for an hour every night, and being shaken awake at this moment was equivalent to being forcibly awakened by a normal person after sleeping for three or four hours. In addition to being uncomfortable, it was still uncomfortable!
Fan Tao is simply rebellious and has no eyesight at all? What level of good news can’t even be waited for half an hour? Did Japan suddenly sink into the Pacific Ocean?
"What good news?" Song He asked resentfully and closed his eyelids again.
"Zlokovic was suddenly beaten for academic fraud, and he was beaten very hard!" Fan Tao was overjoyed, with a tone of gloating, "Multiple subfields of neurological research are likely to face a collapse of liquidation!"
Song He sat up instantly like a spring, his eyes as wide as bells!
What explosive news!
"Let's be clear! Which Zlokovic?" Song He said quickly, "Is it that Zlokovic?"
"Yes!" Fan Tao was so excited that she trembled and scrolled wildly on her phone, "Berislav V Zlokovic, a famous neuroscientist at the University of Southern California! Winner of the Bottam Gold Medal! He is the same old man who publicly beat our team and supported Jin Shunlu's team a few days ago. Come on!"
Song He grabbed Fan Tao's phone in shock and quickly scrolled through the messages.
There is no official news yet, just some rumors on the Internet.
But the source of the rumor is very reliable. Several well-known academic anti-counterfeiters have announced relevant information. Song He has heard about the deeds of these anti-counterfeiters, and basically does not fight with uncertainty. If he dares to reveal it, it is almost likely to be true!
The team members left behind in the laboratory were also alarmed. They gathered around and sat around the boss. They each checked their mobile phones and frantically searched for relevant information on the Internet.
In the laboratory at midnight, excited shouts came one after another!
"Someone dug up two Zlokovic papers! These two papers are more than five years apart, but they use the same pictures to show completely different results! Look at these pictures, they are exactly the same and they are not photoshopped!"
"I found a PhD account named Louise Penelope with identity verification. She said that she was an apprentice in Zlokovic's team ten years ago. The teacher would specify the expected data range in advance. Once the experiment If the result is different from what the teacher expected, you will be scolded bloody!"
"I also found one! Martin Aldrich, a master's degree from Harvard, said that he also worked in Zlokovic's team. The teacher directly forced them to write predetermined content. If they did not obey, they would be kicked out as authors of the paper. Identity! This person was kicked out by Zlokovic because he didn’t dare to lie! But he has never dared to say it publicly for fear that no one would believe him.”
"It's outrageous. I've contacted several of them, all of them were members of Lao Deng's former team. They all said the paper was fake. I feel safe."
"Another fake paper has been exposed. A paper in an unrelated field published by Nature was copied by Zlokovic and stitched into his own paper, published in Neuroscience!"
"Outrageous! I found more breaking news. Zlokovic took tens of millions of dollars in NIH funding to make a stroke drug that protects the brain. As a result, several volunteers were killed during the clinical trial phase. This Lao Deng hid the news!"
The atmosphere in the laboratory is boiling!
Suddenly, Song He cleared his throat and said loudly:
"Okay! You don't need to search here and there, I found the real important document!"
"Hundreds of pages of reporting documents involve the sharp increase in the mortality rate of drug volunteers, the deliberate elimination of some data from various drug tests, and the suspected falsification of images and data in more than 30 papers, including a large number of papers in top journals!"
"This old man has been a leader in many fields of neurology in the past few decades. His papers have been cited tens of thousands of times. At least dozens of universities and companies have used his papers in multiple patents. There are a large number of brains in the international market. He led or assisted in the development of similar drugs!"
Song He glanced at the stunned white coats and said loudly:
"Ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, let us appreciate a real earthquake in the academic world! This earthquake can shock thousands of scholars alive and stupid!"