"Your Medicine Institute stole all the limelight from the Brain Institute. I haven't come after you out of consideration for our old friendship, and you still dare to name your price?" Xiang Xiaotong snorted, brimming with resentment as she threw another little tantrum. "I don't care. I'm freeloading! I'm freeloading off you!"
"Fair competition. How can you say my Medicine Institute stole the Brain Institute's limelight?" Song He protested. "That's banditry!"
"So what if it is banditry?" Xiang Xiaotong continued throwing her tantrum.
"You're shameless!"
"Exactly. So what?"
"How about giving me a little?"
"Not giving you anything. So what?"
Song He was speechless. He felt as if he were talking to a scoundrel, yet he couldn't refuse. Who could blame him when the scoundrel was the Brain Institute and Xiang Xiaotong?
After he hung up, the dean of the School of Information Engineering called too!
For the next half hour, Song He answered calls nonstop with a bitter smile. He was like the God of Stocks, who had learned some inside information and was being hounded for news by friends and relatives. His phone was practically exploding.
There was nothing he could do. Catching academic fraud had always been a major problem in academia. The Medicine Institute had stirred up such a storm this time that the deans were bound to be dying of curiosity!
Countries all over the world had been plagued by academic fraud. Undergraduates committed fraud, and so did Academic Giants. Fake papers appeared in low-impact journals, while top journals were also packed with fraudulent papers. It was everywhere, penetrating every corner!
For relatively minor fraud, such as actually obtaining twenty units of a product but exaggerating the data to eighty, forgiveness was still barely possible. At least something new had truly been produced.
More serious