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Without a doubt, Qiao Ze's name is on fire again!

And this time, it's so hot that it can't even drop off the trending search.

Fortunately, the feedback from netizens this time is relatively positive.

Apart from a few sourpusses suggesting that Qiao Ze is very likely to choose to leave Huaxia and seek the embrace of Mei, the majority are marvelling at how the intelligence gap between people can indeed be greater than that between people and dogs.

Even though the paper praised by Daniel hasn't been officially published, on the Huaxia internet, Qiao Ze had almost become synonymous with genius.

The prior controversies surrounding Qiao Ze were once again dug up by many internet history buffs.

For instance, the magical operation of embedding a "watermark" in his paper, which directly sent a renowned professor from an esteemed European university to the hospital and forced the institution to include their heavily invested research into an open-source library.

It even made all European universities raise their thesis review standards, causing an outcry among students.

Was Qiao Ze really that fierce? Why hadn't I heard about it before?

Then came a wave of self-reflection.

The only pity was that this time netizens frantically searching for traces of Qiao Ze online couldn't find a single clue.

No Weibo account, no Donghu account, let alone other social media accounts.

So the frustrated netizens went straight to the comment sections of various official accounts of Xilin University of Technology to show off.

Some asked about Qiao Ze's recent whereabouts, some inquired whether Qiao Ze was planning to study abroad, some requested the university to definitely keep Qiao Ze, some suggested the university should quickly arrange a professorship for him, and there were even questions about what to pay attention to when applying to Xilin University of Technology next year, asking whether the university accepts students who re-take a school year…

Of course, most were simply there to join in the excitement and show their faces.

It's indeed a pity, since the recruitment season had just ended, otherwise, relying on this wave of popularity, it would be a disgrace if Xilin University of Technology's cut-off score didn't increase by ten or twenty points.

Just at this time, someone online somehow leaked a snippet of a WeChat group chat showing a meeting video directly to Weibo.

This video just happened to capture the vote on whether to agree with Qiao Ze's application to become a member of the National Science Foundation's mathematics panel, along with the voting results.

According to the video, out of nineteen professors, there were 7 votes in favor, 6 against, and 6 abstentions, ultimately passing Qiao Ze's preliminary application.

The result was pretty good, but the netizens, in their excitement, were clearly not satisfied with it.

Let's not talk about the 6 abstentions, but why were there even 6 votes against?

Who gave these professors the courage to cast opposing votes?

Really, it was only because of Daniel's sensational actions that Qiao Ze's application to become a natural science fund expert was exposed before the vote.

If the order had been reversed, not to say that the whole internet would have ridiculed an eighteen-year-old kid for his bravery, but at least it would have dropped Qiao Ze into another major controversy.

But at this time, it only sparked a fierce public critique of the academic circle's seniority system.

It's actually quite difficult to reason online; once the rhythm is set, it's hard to swim against the current without ironclad evidence, otherwise it's difficult to shift perceptions.

But this time, unless evidence could prove that Qiao Ze's paper involved plagiarism or any other academic misconduct, you can't just complain about the standards for becoming an expert.

So, this time people started to pluck professors.

Those who abstained were ignored, but those who voted for or against were quickly outed online.

Most of these professors who could be experts were employed in universities or major research institutes. Find adventures on empire

These places tend to post these well-known professors' photos and introductions on their official websites, not to mention that students also surf the internet, and it's hard to say if there were any students who wanted to backstab their mentors. After all, not every mentor is loved by everyone.

Many might not believe it, but there have been mentors shrewd enough to pay out project subsidies to students first, then demand them back, appropriating the research funds from the project account for personal use.

In the end, it was quickly found that those who supported Qiao Ze joining the experts' panel were mostly professors from the Beijing circle, while those who opposed were mostly professors from Linhai.

And so, the drama escalated.

Every paper published by the professors who had voted against was dug up.

Some netizens even scrutinized master's and doctoral theses without sparing anything.

It wasn't that they didn't want to pry into undergraduate theses, mainly because undergraduate theses were only stored internally and rarely uploaded to academic databases.

And then came all sorts of nitpicking and flamboyant comparisons.

Qiao Ze's published papers on one side, the professors' papers on the other, from the impact factor of the journals to the citation count of the papers, to the evaluations, significance, and even potential plagiarism...

It really started with scrutinizing through magnifying glasses, picking at every flaw.

When it was concluded that some professors were not even as good as Qiao Ze, everyone pounced in unison.

Perhaps the vast majority of netizens don't understand mathematics, but one should never underestimate their ability to compose words.

"So as long as you block someone stronger than you at the door, you'll always be the strongest one, right? Lesson learned!"

"When you find a young person stronger than you, what you should do first is to examine yourself, to see if you have been diligent in research in recent years, if you have progressed, instead of waving your vote against in your hands!"

"Don't scold these experts anymore, let me say something fair. Maybe they didn't mean to vote against, right? Is there a possibility that they voted against simply because they couldn't understand Qiao Ze's paper? After all, it's a serious academic work by Qiao Ze, right?"