Chapter 1175: They're Good-for-Nothings (Part 3)
"Hostess, I want to ask you a few questions. This Chinese scholar performed surgery on a pair of conjoined twins. You say he violated medical ethics, so I ask you: Which team reached this conclusion using what method of investigation? Where is the investigation material and who made the judgment based on it?" Manstein said slowly and steadily.
"Uh... there are rumors out there... they are all saying..." the hostess stammered.
"Rumors? Is there not a standard judgment process in the United States for deciding whether a scholar's surgery violates medical ethics? Does the U.S. not have a process and just rely on rumors? Does the news audit in the United States not need to be factual, only rely on rumors? You say they are all saying? Who are 'they', please tell me and finally invite them here to have a dialogue with me."
"Professor Manstein, I mean how would you comment on this matter." The hostess immediately emphasized.
Manstein said, "You want me to comment on something that does not exist? You want me to comment on a rumor? Fine, now there's a rumor outside that they say, Miss Julie, you have an extremely chaotic relationship with multiple male colleagues at your TV station, please share your thoughts on this matter."
"Professor Manstein, please don't make personal attacks! You're completely fabricating."
"Sorry, I meant how you view this matter."
"This is something that doesn't exist at all!"
"But you just asked me to comment on something that doesn't exist, why can't I ask you to evaluate it?"
"But the matter I mentioned is already on online news."
"You mean things that appear on the internet or newspapers are real? Okay, today I brought some rumors about you personally from the internet. Take a look, all revolving around the topic I just mentioned. Is it true?"
"I, oh my!"
"You see, right? Would you like me to search live for similar information for you?"
"No, no, no, it's really terrible."
"Therefore, Miss Julie, you are also a victim of such irresponsible rumors. As a journalist, you should stand up and counter such rumors, instead of being like them, blindly harming an honest and talented scholar, just as I don't want to blindly believe the rumors about you."
"Very well, I think you're right. I really want to know why the rumors are so rampant now?"
"Actually, I don't want to say, your rumors are also rampant because there are always fools willing to believe these slanders and some media mislead the public for traffic. Similarly, with regard to the Chinese scholar incident, because there are always people claiming to be scholars who mislead the public. Ordinary people can be forgiven for lacking relevant professional knowledge, but these 'scholars', I'll temporarily call them scholars, why would they choose to believe and even fan the flames? The real reason is they lack fundamental knowledge, making them follow the crowd and shout just like ordinary people. For example, Professor Huffman, who published an article condemning, I've read all his papers; there are data problems in at least ten articles. I'm sure those ten sets of data were fabricated. Such a person stands in the position of a professor, I'm uncertain about what really happened. I can enlighten you..."
"Oh my, how could this happen?"
"I will point out why these people are unreliable one by one in the future. In academic terms, they are actually all faking, so they assume everyone else is also faking. What they cannot do, they believe others cannot do. I hope everyone eventually refrains from haphazardly criticizing the Chinese professor and instead should criticize these people."
"Because they are afraid, afraid that a thing they cannot accomplish is easily accomplished by the Chinese professor, in the end only proving---they are incompetent."