Controversy was quick to follow.
In the court of public opinion, most people sided with Director You. The research topic of Wu Ting's project was simply too unconvincing.
A master's student's thesis claiming to cure hepatitis B-related primary liver cancer? Who could possibly believe that?
The project's budget was a single yuan, entirely self-funded. And yet, it offered such high compensation for part-time work to the students and faculty of Jinggang University Medical College and its Affiliated Hospital...
For a time, a negative narrative was stirred up against Jinggang University, much like the public opinion onslaughts that Xingke University and Shuimu University often faced...
This wave of public criticism actually caused some of the doctors who had been planning to apply as research assistants for the project to waver.
However, the main members of the research group and its expert consultants all remained calm and unconcerned, carrying on with their work as usual.
