Chapter 162: Protest for Professor Huang!
The reporter’s exclusive interview with Hwang Woo-suk quickly appeared in the Korean media.
After learning that Hwang Woo-suk had denied that he had falsified the paper, the Korean people immediately began to support Hwang Woo-suk overwhelmingly. The few voices that questioned Hwang Woo-suk before disappeared immediately.
The "smear theory" soon spread. Many Korean people believe that foreigners do not want Koreans to win the Nobel Prize and are deliberately trying to discredit Hwang Woo-suk.
In fact, if you think about it for a while, you will know that Huang Yuxi's scientific research results belong to basic science, not applied science. Who would be idle to discredit a basic science research result? It's completely harmful to others and not beneficial to oneself.
What's more, since Science has retracted the paper, it must be true that the paper is fraudulent. Just a few words of "work error" cannot explain the retraction by Science.
But the Korean people still blindly believe that Hwang Woo-suk was wrongly accused and suppressed.
Korean people have this kind of national character. They always feel that they are the best in the universe, and they always feel that their country is very famous. The whole world is paying attention to every move of South Korea. It seems that without the Republic of Korea, the world would not be the same. Turned.
But in fact, most people from European and American countries cannot even find South Korea on the world map.
This kind of national character makes Koreans like to blame others when they face their own mistakes. After all, I am the most powerful country in the universe, so I must have no problems, and others are the ones who are at fault.
If you insist on saying that I am wrong, then you must be jealous of me and you are trying to smear me!
Even if I really made a mistake, it was not my fault, but caused by objective factors, or you framed me deliberately!
The last part of the interview, that is, the part where Hwang Woo-suk said that the person who exposed the falsification of his paper was a physics student and was a layman's smear campaign, which directly stirred the nerves of Koreans.
Those Korean people who support Hwang Woo-suk could not find a reasonable excuse to defend Hwang Woo-suk, but now they finally have a reason.
Every line is like a mountain. You are a physics student, what do you know about biology? What do you know about cloning? What do you know about human embryonic stem cells? Why should a layman question our great Professor Huang Yuxi? Why should he say that Professor Huang's paper is a fake Smecta!
Those who study physics question the scientific research results of great biologists. It is obvious that this is deliberately spreading rumors and deliberately smearing!
How can it be tolerated?
Some angry Korean people immediately began to investigate who was the physicist who spread rumors and smeared Huang Yuxi's paper as a falsification!
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In a barbecue restaurant near Seoul National University, several young college students were discussing the matter of Hwang Woo-suk.
"I said before that Professor Huang couldn't have falsified his paper! Now you know! He was wrongly accused!"
"I heard that foreigners don't want Professor Huang to win the Nobel Prize, so They deliberately spread rumors to smear Professor Huang.”
“That’s definitely the case. Foreigners don’t want to see the rise of the Republic of Korea and will suppress us if they get the chance. But even so, they can’t stop us from becoming the number one in the world! A powerful country with science and technology!”
“Didn’t Professor Huang say during the interview that this paper fraud incident was completely framed by a physicist? It seems that the physicist is still Chinese!”
"It turns out to be the shopkeeper! No wonder they framed Professor Huang. The shopkeeper must be afraid of the rise of our Republic of Korea! They are afraid that we will regain the lost land!"
"How despicable! Don't let me find out the Chinese who framed Professor Huang, otherwise I will tear him to pieces!"
A few college students were fighting for Huang Yuxi. On the TV in the barbecue restaurant, A talk show was played, and the guests on the show were also talking about Huang Yuxi being framed.
“Don’t we need to be held responsible for this kind of blatant slander of our national treasure-level scientists? I think the Republic of Korea should hold this shameless person legally accountable!” one guest said.
"But the person who slandered Professor Huang is not Korean. I am afraid that we in the Republic of Korea really have no way to hold him legally responsible!" another guest said.
"We can extradite him to our Republic of Korea for trial. Even if there is no extradition treaty, our diplomatic department should protest against this! We cannot let our scientists suffer such unjust injustice!" Before The guest said impassionedly.
"I agree with you! Our country must at least show an attitude and never allow foreigners to spread rumors and slander us! We must kill chickens to scare monkeys!"
"But so far, our diplomatic department has done nothing to Without action, are these incompetent bureaucrats worthy of all the people of the Republic of Korea?”
“This cannot be blamed on the foreign affairs department. After all, so far, we still don’t know the physicist who first spread rumors to smear Professor Huang. Who is it? Since we still don’t know the identity of the other party, the diplomatic department has no way to protest.”
At this time, the host interjected: “Just before the program started, our station received the latest news. According to the news, the identity of the physicist who smeared Professor Huang has been confirmed. His name is Zhang Wei, from Tsinghua University in China. He has also published a paper in the "Science" magazine, and it was in the same issue as Professor Huang. "
"Has the identity of the other party been determined? That's great! I suggest that the prosecutors should immediately launch an action to hold him accountable, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should also take action to protest against this shameless act of false accusation! "The guest said with a righteous look.
In the barbecue restaurant, several Korean college students were also excited at this time.
“Protest, we must protest! We must resolutely protest against this shameless act of smearing scientists from the Republic of Korea!”
“We will go to the embassy to protest now, and we must severely punish this person named Zhang Wei Scum!”
“Yes, Zhang Wei must be severely punished and make him pay the price to restore a clean world to the academic world!” The Korean people do not admit that Huang Yuxi’s paper was falsified. Judging from his scapegoat attitude, he also urgently needs to find a scapegoat.
If Zhang Wei were an American, the Korean people would most likely not act very radically. After all, as an American dad, what’s the harm in kicking yourself? Hitting means kissing and scolding means loving!
But Zhang Wei is Chinese, so he is obviously the most suitable candidate to take the blame.
Since South Korea became rich, it began to look down on China. After all, China was poor at the time. Koreans would feel ashamed to think that a poor country was their former suzerain country.
Only a strong American father is worthy of being his own suzerain.
For Koreans, any opportunity to ride on China's head will not be easily passed up. Thinking about the suzerain country back then, being pushed to the ground and rubbed by him, wouldn't this be a realistic version of Mo deceiving young people into poverty? How proud and proud it is, what a boost to national self-confidence!
So after Zhang Wei's identity was revealed, many protesting crowds appeared around the Blue House, the presidential palace of South Korea. The South Korean people demand that the government come forward to seek justice for their national treasure-level scientists!
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At the same time that public opinion in South Korea began to ferment, Shi Yigong also saw Zhang Wei's paper in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University in the United States.
“Can nucleoside-modified mRNA break through the immune system and enter cells directly? This scientific research result is interesting! It should be very inspiring and helpful for mRNA therapy.
This paper is quite well written, the wording and narrative are quite rigorous, and there is almost no need for revision. However, if you want to get this scientific research result into the three major journals, you still have to work hard!
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As the saying goes, people make decisions and God makes things happen. Since Principal Gu personally called to ask for help, I will write a letter of recommendation, hoping that the three major journals will buy it. ”
Professor Shi sighed lightly, and then began to read the content of the last page of the paper.
Like Principal Gu, Professor Shi also focused on the scientific research part of the paper. As for the last The introduction to the future application of the technology was limited to just a few words.
However, when Professor Shi saw the phrase "mRNA vaccine", his expression was shocked
"Nucleoside modification." The resulting mRNA carries viral antigen gene sequences and directly enters body cells to produce viral antigens, thereby stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies. Is this still possible? What a genius idea! ”
After calming down a little, Professor Shi entered a thinking state. After careful consideration, he found that in theory, the idea of an mRNA vaccine was really feasible.
If you think about it more carefully, not only is the mRNA vaccine feasible, but it is not too difficult. If you start research now, you should be able to make an mRNA vaccine within ten years.
In other words, the idea proposed in the paper is completely feasible. As long as someone is willing to spend money and time to research, an mRNA vaccine can really be made.
After realizing this, Professor Shi took a breath of air: "This is a Nobel Prize-level achievement!"
Looking at the results of nucleoside modification alone, can it be published in the three major journals? Indeed Just depends on luck. But with the idea of this mRNA vaccine, the three major journals are definitely stable!
If nucleoside modification is like opening a window, letting the wind blow in, you can breathe the fresh air outside.
Then the startup of the mRNA vaccine is telling you that there is a bikini party happening outside the window! As long as you go to the window and look out, you will see a pure big wave, no zombies!
"Has the level of basic research in China reached this level? It can produce Nobel Prize-level results!" Professor Shi couldn't help but feel excited.
“If this is really the case, then it’s time for me to return to China!”
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The editorial department of "Science" magazine once again received Zhang Wei's paper.
This paper on nucleoside modification was published in Science, mainly because Zhang Wei was already familiar with it in Science.
Zhang Wei has published top-level papers in Science before. If he submits another paper, he will definitely be taken seriously.
And the status of the three major scientific journals is not much different. The quality of Nobel Prize-level papers is the same no matter where they are submitted.
This time, not only did Shi Yigong’s letter of recommendation appear in my submission, but Zhang Wei also stated in the author’s introduction that he had published a paper in Science.
The treatment of old authors is definitely different. Zhang Wei's paper directly passed the editor's preliminary selection and was sent to the official editor.
"Tsinghua University? Zhang Wei? Chinese? I have the impression that he is the Chinese who discovered graphene!" The official editor still has an impression of Zhang Wei.
After all, it has been less than a year since Zhang Wei last published a paper, and there are not many Chinese people who can publish papers in Science.
"There is also a letter of recommendation this time! Shi Yigong, professor of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University? What is the Department of Molecular Biology? Can graphene be related to molecular biology?"
Edit He looked confused, then looked at the title of the paper, and suddenly looked like he had seen a ghost.
"Toll-like receptors? Inhibition of RNA recognition? Nucleoside modification? This is a biology paper! How can a physicist write a biology paper?"
(End of Chapter)
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