[Do you know how hard Wu Yan works? Do you know him?]
[Think about it, trolls. Would a 25-year-old mathematics PhD student, young and promising, do something like this in public? And in public? You're the only one who can solve a mathematical proof problem, and no one else can?]
[What can a conference transcript prove? I laughed. Do you think you can prove that Yan Yan plagiarized with a fake foreign devil's signature from a meeting? I've never been to Princeton, but I watched the proof process from beginning to end. It's completely different than what I saw on TV!]
[Best young speaker, US $10,000 prize money, that's embarrassing. It's not even a fraction of Yan Yan's endorsement fee.]
[Wu Yan fans, hold on! Justice will prevail! (fist) (fist)]
Lu Zhou looked at the Weibo comment section that he shared with a photo of the meeting notes and felt emotional.
If he was just a nobody.
If he was just an ordinary student at a normal university.
If it wasn't published in an authoritative academic conference, no one would question it.
If there wasn't such a background, and if there weren't people endorsing this matter for various reasons, this matter wouldn't have been easy to resolve.
This reminded him of the 2014 academic scandal, the "academic goddess" Obokata Haruko incident. A Nobel Prize-level fraud almost fooled the entire world, but it ended with the suicide of the supervisor.
There were countless examples overseas, and it was the same in China. For example, a few years ago, when his father was an academician candidate, the university president …
Fortunately, he was not fighting alone.
He did not even have to do anything himself.
When Lu Zhou saw the comments on Weibo, he was surprised to find out that he wasn't angry at all. He didn't even want to blacklist those trolls.
Instead …
Want to laugh?
"Come on, I'm not tired of trolling yet. Your Yan Yan is dead. Go support him on the interview."
Lu Zhou scrolled all the way to the bottom of the comments. When he saw the voices of support for him, he felt a warmth in his heart. He smiled and clicked on the like button.
He ignored the "Wu fans" and called Luo Wenxuan, who was far away in Princeton.
The minutes of the meeting were timely and crucial.
No matter what, he had to say thank you to him.
…
The news that Director Zhang was referring to was none other than Everyone Daily.
This time, the direction of Everyone Daily's editorial was very clear, it was the most recent hot topic.
"Entertainment programs should also have basic social values. Don't treat entertainment as if it's nothing."
Perhaps it was because they had been slapped in the face some time ago, the editorial was sharp. They used harsh words to criticize the variety show "The Strongest Brainiac". According to the article, a program that ignored the social impact in order to create a program effect and was unaware of it was not only fooling the audience, but also ignoring the law.
As soon as this editorial was published, it was immediately forwarded by major media outlets. Under the impetus of public opinion, it was naturally sent to the hot search.
On Everyone Daily's official blog, the comments section exploded.
[F * ck, I thought it was really a mathematical conjecture proved by Wu Yan. I was puzzled at the time. Is the threshold for becoming a celebrity so high?]
[The cost of a live broadcast is amazing.]
[I don't know why so many NC fans like Wu Yan. He's just a PhD student at the University of Aoda. He's been holding back his PhD thesis for years. Some time ago, I even specifically asked the students studying there, and they have all been expelled!]
[You can never wake up a person pretending to be asleep.]
[I hope that the old dog will laugh out loud in prison if he knows about this.]
[The Righteous Hammer Will Win (fist) (fist)]
[I'm curious who Lu Zhou is. Last time it was China Youth Daily, this time it's Everyone Daily. He's endorsed by the official media twice, I'm afraid he's not a small person …]
[…]
After Everyone Daily's name was mentioned, people who were originally skeptical of the whole thing began to change their stance.
No matter how Wu Yan's fans tried to defend themselves, they were vulnerable in front of the government's hammer.
They couldn't even find a place to group up.
Because when they looked for Wu Yan's Weibo, they were surprised to find that he had disappeared from their list.
Before he was banned, someone took a screenshot of his last Weibo post.
[I, Wu Yan, would never plagiarize. I have five million followers. Do I have to use this method to increase my influence? That moment of inspiration made me write those words on the whiteboard. I don't understand. Just because I did it, no one believed that the result would be like this. Those who accuse me, you're persecuting a scientist …]
Even in the end, he didn't want to admit it.
Needless to say, his desire to survive was indeed very strong.
Unfortunately, his desire to live seemed to be used in the wrong place.
Other than those people who didn't realize their mistakes, no one sympathized with him.
In front of the mountain of evidence, as an adult, he had to pay the price for his bad influence on society.
…
After the incident happened, it quickly caused a heated discussion among major universities.
Other than the Suzhou TV station, which was low-key and avoided the limelight, almost all other media outlets were reporting on the two people in the eye of the storm.
Yan University campus.
A man and a woman walked side by side on the tree-lined path leading to the library.
At this moment, a reporter caught up from behind.
"Hello, please wait a moment … Excuse me, are you Wei Wen, the top scorer of the 2013 college entrance examination?"
Wei Wen stopped and looked at the reporter.
"Yes, what's up?"
"Here's the thing. Our TV station is doing a campus interview program. What do you think about the recent Weibo controversy between Wu Yan and Lu Zhou?"
Wei Wen pushed his glasses and said, "You're asking me about who I think?"
The reporter smiled and asked, "Let's talk about Lu Zhou first. I heard you met him at the national competition. What do you think of him?"
Wei Wen thought for a moment and replied, "A respectable opponent."
Although he was far ahead of Lu Zhou and did not deserve to be called an opponent.
However, this did not prevent him from working towards his goal.
In his dictionary, the word "give up" never existed.
After that, he was ready to leave.
"Wait a second."
Wei Wen turned around and looked at the reporter.
"Is there anything else?"
The reporter caught up and continued to ask, "What about Wu Yan? You once won the IMO International Mathematics Olympiad gold medal. Do you believe what Wu Yan said about having an epiphany? "
"Wu Yan?" Wei Wen frowned and smiled. "Ah, he's just a weakling, what's there to talk about."
The reporter paused for a second.
Wei Wen turned around and no longer looked at the reporter or the camera.
"Cui Jing, let's go."
"Mhmm."
The girl named Cui Jing nodded and quickly followed behind him.
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