The moment the four words “data fabrication” came out of Jiang Fuyue’s mouth, the entire venue fell into a silence like a deep abyss or a dead sea.
“Impossible!” The first person to jump out in rebuttal was not Tosaki Kawashima himself, but another expert seated below the stage.
Jiang Fuyue recognized him, Dougal Dixon, a famous pharmacologist from E Country and an old friend of Tosaki Kawashima for decades.
“Miss Jiang, do you know what academic fraud means to a scientific researcher?! This is an extremely bizarre and absurd accusation! As a winner of this year’s Lasker Award, I hope you will take responsibility for every word you say! Otherwise, it is rumor-mongering and defamation!”
As soon as he said this, many people echoed in agreement.
As peers, they clearly understood the consequences of “fabrication,” and precisely because of that, they could not make rash judgments.
Dougal said, “You say it’s fabrication, so it’s fabrication? Where’s the evidence?”
Jiang Fuyue met his condemning gaze and smiled slightly, as if she was not surprised that things had developed to this point.
“Don’t worry, you’ll see it very soon.”
After saying that, she ignored Dougal and looked directly at Tosaki Kawashima. A sharp edge gradually appeared in her beautiful peach-blossom eyes.
Jiang Fuyue adjusted the microphone and spoke word by word, enunciating clearly to ensure every corner of the venue could hear:
“Mr. Tosaki, in front of all the colleagues present, I will ask once more, did you fabricate the data in your paper?”
“No.” Tosaki Kawashima picked up the microphone without any hesitation. His expression was calm, his tone steady.
There was no trace of guilt.
“Did you hear that? Tosaki said he did not fabricate anything!” Dougal stretched his neck and shouted from below the stage.
Jiang Fuyue ignored him completely and stared only at Tosaki Kawashima. “Are you sure?”
Tosaki Kawashima replied, “I swear on my personality and dignity!”
Dougal said, “Miss Jiang, don’t go too far!”
Jiang Fuyue turned toward the audience, her voice clear and bright: “Mr. Tosaki speaks with certainty, but I still stand by my previous conclusion.”
Boom!
These words instantly angered the crowd,
“How can you be so stubborn?”
“Don’t think that just because you’re a Lasker Award winner you can look down on everyone! Who here hasn’t won a world-class award?”
“You’re young, but your tone is quite arrogant!”
“Who do you think you are?!”
“…”
Jiang Fuyue’s attitude was too forceful. Looking across the audience, nearly all were senior figures older than her. Setting aside the matter itself, her bold manner alone made many people feel offended.
In a sense, Tosaki Kawashima represented the old establishment of the global medical field, while Jiang Fuyue was a newcomer who had just stepped into the circle and already stirred up turmoil, who would be comfortable with that?
Yet facing everyone’s criticism, she stood upright with the microphone in hand, calm and steady, her cool gaze sweeping lightly across the audience:
“If you want to scold me, please wait until I finish speaking. Mr. Dougal.”
Dougal, suddenly called out, froze.
Jiang Fuyue curled her lips slightly. “Didn’t you want evidence? I’ll give it to you now, watch carefully.”
As she spoke, she switched the display screen behind her to the next slide.
A table appeared clearly before everyone.
Jiang Fuyue said, “This is a randomly sampled group of 1000 pregnant women. During their pregnancies, all of them had used medications containing SAP and GEP hormone components due to sudden illnesses such as herpes zoster or peptic ulcers.”
“This table records the changes in their physical data and fetal indicators before and after medication use, with a tracking period of up to two years. In other words, the physical condition of the newborns before the age of one is reflected here.”
“Through horizontal, vertical, and cross analyses, and after removing irrelevant influencing factors, it can be clearly seen, the mothers’ physical data remained normal after medication, and the health rate of the children born reached as high as 97.8%!”
“This is what Professor Tosaki calls ‘serious harm’ and ‘X-level classification’?”
“Sorry,” Jiang Fuyue raised her eyes coldly, her voice firm and decisive, “this blame will not be carried by the special-effect drug, and I will not carry it either!”
A small-scale disturbance began to appear in the audience, and the whispering grew louder than before.
“What’s going on?”
“Didn’t Tosaki Kawashima say his data had no problems?”
“Now the two of them are each sticking to their own claims, but don’t forget that Tosaki Kawashima’s paper was published in The Lancet.”
“So what if it was published in The Lancet? Does that automatically make it correct?”
“Maybe we all underestimated Jiang Fuyue…”
“And trusted Tosaki Kawashima too much.”
“…”
On stage…
“Impossible!” Tosaki Kawashima stood up excitedly, almost losing composure. “It’s absolutely impossible for you to obtain so much clinical trial data!”
As a physician, after years of accumulation and retention, he himself had fewer than 800 clinical samples. Jiang Fuyue, a young person who had not even graduated from university and had never worked as a doctor, how could she possibly have a thousand-level sample size?
“You are the one fabricating data! It’s impossible for you to have these!”
The same doubt also surfaced in the minds of Fu Zhengxin and Qian Youwen, who were sitting stiffly below the stage.
In such a short time, where had Jiang Fuyue obtained these data?
Fu Zhengxin frowned. “Did you give them to her?”
Qian Youwen widened his eyes. “How could I?!”
Ever since the last time he avoided meeting them and broke his promise, Xu Kaiqing and Jiang Fuyue had never contacted him again.
The two sides had completely fallen out.
Qian Youwen was not shameless enough to rush forward to curry favor.
Not only that, he had completely sided with Fu Zhengxin and even published articles publicly criticizing Jiang Fuyue.
If he had known it would turn out like today, even if he had to humble himself, accept scolding, and beg Jiang Fuyue for forgiveness, he would not have hesitated!
Qian Youwen truly regretted it.
He had a strong premonition that Jiang Fuyue would definitely win this academic debate…
Fu Zhengxin did not notice his emotional change and was still thinking: “Since you didn’t give it to her, where did her data come from?”
“You’re asking me? Who should I ask?!” Qian Youwen snapped impatiently.
He thought that if Fu Zhengxin had not incited and encouraged him, how could he have offended Xu Kaiqing and Jiang Fuyue?
Yes, it was all his fault!
He was the real culprit!
…
At this moment on stage, Tosaki Kawashima pressed step by step.
“If you cannot clearly explain the source of the data, then I have reason to suspect that all of this was fabricated by you!”
“The source of the data?” Jiang Fuyue smiled faintly and switched to the next slide. “Look carefully, the data comes from the database of Hanqing Bio!”
Hanqing Bio sells millions of tons of medication every year. After passing through doctors’ hands, these drugs ultimately reach the patients who need them. In fact, this process naturally screens out eligible individual samples.
Compared with the sample size collected by a single doctor treating patients, the difference is thousands or even tens of thousands of times larger.
“This is only a sample of 1000 people. I also have samples of 10,000 and 100,000. Professor Tosaki, would you like to see them?”
“You…” Tosaki Kawashima’s body swayed slightly. “How could you possibly obtain internal data from a pharmaceutical company? No… impossible… absolutely impossible…”
Especially since Hanqing Bio was a multinational pharmaceutical group!
Who did she think she was?
Jiang Fuyue curled her lips, but the smile did not reach her eyes. “Because I hold shares in Hanqing Bio.” Although it was as a proxy.
Her tone was casual, as if she were merely saying she owned a lipstick.
Tosaki Kawashima’s face instantly turned pale.
The audience below also erupted into an uproar,
“No wonder she could obtain so much clinical trial data… it turns out to be Hanqing Biotech?!”
“Oh! My God! Just what background does Jiang Fuyue have?”
“I heard the A+ vaccine she developed is being produced and exported by Hanqing.”
So…
Tosaki Kawashima has run into his nemesis this time!
Those who had previously accused Jiang Fuyue all fell silent at this moment, quiet as chickens.
Dougal opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but facing the densely packed experimental data on the screen, he ultimately couldn’t say a single word.
Because anyone with eyes could see that Tosaki Kawashima had lost.
Lost completely! Absolutely!
And his earlier behavior, firmly denying fabrication and even swearing on his personality and dignity, now looked so ridiculous and ironic.
So it turns out, some people really can lie without blinking.
At the same time, the three major livestream platforms also exploded.
Bullet comments fell like they were free, thickly covering the live broadcast screen.
【Tosaki little J, … just tell us, does your face hurt!】
【It’s actually academic fraud, I’m shocked! Are scientists from R country really this wild?】
【The shame of scientific research, the sorrow of academia, Tosaki Kawashima!】
【Honestly, when Sister Yue asked him whether there was fabrication, he said no, and his expression was so natural, not a trace of guilt. He probably even fooled himself. That’s terrifying】
【Yes, by the same logic, if one day he killed someone but his subconscious suggested “I didn’t kill,” then he really wouldn’t think he’s the murderer and would never feel guilty. People like this usually have no sense of reverence and are cold-blooded to the core!】
【The comment above just gave me goosebumps, too scary】
【To be honest, his appearance already makes people uncomfortable】
【I think when Sister Yue asked Tosaki Kawashima again in front of everyone whether he fabricated data, it seemed intentional (super quietly)】
【Or maybe she wanted to give him one last chance, but unfortunately he didn’t take it, only realized it was dirty after his face fell to the ground】
【Tosaki Kawashima, let’s remember this name and nail him to the pillar of academic shame】
【Everyone’s talking about Tosaki Kawashima, am I the only one who noticed Hanqing Biotech?】
【What about Hanqing Biotech?】
【Same question!】
【Oh my god! You guys don’t know? That’s Professor Xie’s company!】
【Whoa, so Professor Xie gave Sister Yue shares? And lets her freely use the data in his company’s database?】
【When I date, my boyfriend gives me cola, fried chicken, and chips; when Goddess Yue dates, Professor Xie gives shares, gives data, and offers up his entire fortune】
【Stop talking, I already kicked my husband off the sofa. He’s rubbing his butt while calling me a crooked woman】
【Wuwu… the country owes me a boyfriend!】
【What kind of domineering-CEO Mary Sue plot is this? Professor Xie: Woman, I’ll even give you my life!】
【Awoo! The CP fans got sugar again!】
【Honestly, if this pair doesn’t get married, it’ll be hard to wrap things up】
【Wait, I’m going to move the Civil Affairs Bureau here right now】
【……】
Seeing that Tosaki Kawashima’s downfall was already inevitable and the outcome decided, Jiang Fuyue did not immediately end the debate.
Over the next two hours, she presented from beginning to end the entire process of her replication experiment to everyone.
Including the initial ideas, as well as the later-stage data collection and cross-analysis.
Finally, facing her peers present and all the media cameras, she loudly declared to the world, “The Schankwo drug poses no harm to pregnant women or fetuses. It should not be classified as X-level, nor should it be classified as C-level!”
“Even taking ten thousand steps back, assuming the special-effect drug really does harm pregnant women and fetuses, does that mean pregnant patients infected with the Schankwo virus shouldn’t use it?”
“No. Mothers are indeed great, but they should not be kidnapped by the identity of being a mother. Before she is a mother, she is first herself.”
“Only if she lives can the child possibly survive.”
“Thank you all for coming to witness this academic debate between Professor Tosaki and me, and for clearing the name of the Schankwo special-effect drug!”
After speaking, Jiang Fuyue gave a deep bow.
Five seconds of dead silence later,
Thunderous applause erupted at the scene.
Everyone stood up one after another.
Meanwhile, Tosaki Kawashima could only sit stiffly on the stage, staring blankly at everything before him, eyes hollow and expression numb.
In the end, it was Tosaki Chiba and Tosaki Naohara who came onstage to support him away.
Tosaki Chiba passed by Jiang Fuyue expressionlessly, his eyes filled with viciousness: “The Tosaki family won’t just let this go. You wait…”
“Anytime.”
Tosaki Naohara didn’t dare speak. After his older brother took their father away first, he lagged behind and quietly said to Jiang Fuyue, “Sorry.”
Thus, the academic debate came to an end. Compared with the decades-long grand debate on quantum mechanics between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, the one between Jiang Fuyue and Tosaki Kawashima was somewhat too monotonous to watch.
There was no evenly matched confrontation, only Jiang Fuyue’s one-sided crushing.
From this point on, because of academic fraud, Tosaki Kawashima’s reputation in the academic world was completely ruined.
It was said that that very afternoon he slipped away from China in disgrace and returned to R country.
However, after the debate ended that day, Jiang Fuyue did not step down immediately. Instead, she did something big on the stage.
Holding the microphone, she solemnly introduced Wujin Building to everyone present.
“…This is an interdisciplinary experimental building with a total of 22 floors. Except for the first floor, which is the conference hall where we are now, from the second floor upward each level has functional laboratories of various sizes, as well as living spaces… Starting today, Wujin Building will open its doors to scientists and researchers from all fields and disciplines around the world. As long as you have ability, achievements, focus on academia, and are committed to scientific research, Ming University will help you establish personal laboratories and settle in Wujin Building! We will provide sufficient research funding and experimental equipment…”
“Floors are limited, positions are competitive, scientists from all over the world are welcome to apply!”
……
Peter: “Hehe…”
Xu Kaiqing: “What are you laughing at?” So sly.
Peter: “Cho… uh! Yueyue said I would be the first scientist to settle in Wujin Building. She reserved an entire floor for me, an entire floor!”
Xu Kaiqing: “?!” When did that happen?! Why didn’t I know?!
Waiting backstage together with the two of them, Xie Dingyuan: “……” I didn’t know either.
So… did my wife leave one for me?
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