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Chapter 517 - 338: Technological Capitalism

Chapter 517: Chapter 338: Technological Capitalism

"Bang!"

After hanging up the phone, Hoffman slammed the table forcefully, his eyes filled with rage.

As a PFE researcher, Richard saw the negative impact on himself, and the company that had invested a massive amount of research funds.

But as an editor-in-chief, what Hoffman saw was the enormous negative impact on the entire industry.

Ever since that "classic among classics" validated oligomer Aβ56, the related medical industry had started to bet heavily on it.

Just last year alone, the support from Oceanic Health Research Institute (NIH) for "amyloid-beta, oligomers, and Alzheimer’s disease" reached a staggering one billion US dollars.

This amount nearly accounted for half of the NIH’s total funding for Alzheimer’s research!

If this scope was expanded to the whole world, and the timeline extended, then the research funds derived from this paper over the past sixteen years amounted to an astronomical figure of several hundred billion US dollars!

And now, these studies have been proven to be on a completely wrong course, like building a skyscraper and finding out halfway that the foundation is made of foam plastic...

The researchers’ funds, energy, and time might all have been in vain.

The most tragic are the patients "trapped in time", who might lose the hope of a cure, forever unable to retrieve their lost memories...

And even more chilling is the fact that those experts who claimed to have made major breakthroughs in the Aβ56 research field, and the various drugs that claimed effective cures and aggressively collected money...

What grew from false soil could only be fruit named "Falsehood"...

This isn’t just a solitary case of academic fraud; it is a heart-wrenchingly collective academic fraud!

Even he hadn’t anticipated such a result before initiating an independent investigation.

This meager ten thousand US dollar independent investigation exposed the addiction to fraud in the international academic circle, as well as the myriad capital bubbles inflated by the investment of several hundred billion in R&D funds by major pharmaceutical companies.

And the 50 million Alzheimer’s patients around the globe, who have been left waiting in vain for a full sixteen years...

"What’s that noise? Did my little Elizabeth knock something over again?

Oh! What a mischievous little thing!

Hoffman, have you seen my little Elizabeth? I hope it’s not your favorite vase that she’s smashed."

The voice Hoffman had just used to vent his anger drew a look of wonder from an old woman on the bed.

"...Don’t worry, dear, it won’t."

Hoffman forced a smile on his face and comforted her in a gentle voice.

But his heart was filled with bitterness.

Little Elizabeth had been buried by his wife over ten years ago.

And the vase she referred to as her favorite... had already been broken by little Elizabeth...

"Dear? Why do you call me dear?

Sir, who are you? That is quite rude, you know.

Hoffman? Hoffman, where are you? Come help me find my little Elizabeth!"

Hoffman: "..."

He called for the nanny with a look of utter dejection.

"Aisha, please take care of madam for a while. I need to make a trip, and I might be gone for a week or two."

"Alright, sir. Where might you be heading?"

"Country Hua..."

Glancing at his wife, who was still talking to thin air, Hoffman sighed, turned, and left.

Just as he left the room, he caught sight of a bottle of medicine on the table. With a hint of anger in his eyes, he tossed it straight into the nearby trash can.

"Oh! Sir, what are you doing? That’s the lady’s medicine!" exclaimed the nanny Aisha in surprise.

"Medicine? No! That’s just trash!"

Hoffman said bitterly as he left the room.

In the trash can, the medicine bottle was smeared with grime, with the name of the drug printed on it—"Simufilam".

...

"This surprise really keeps on giving..."

On the other side, after listening to the report about Zheng Dalu, Gao Yuan’s expression was also somewhat odd.

"Sign a newbie, and a single ’unaware of Spider Web’ sends them soaring to the top of domestic hot searches."

Now they’ve just made a technological breakthrough, and the noise has spread abroad. In a couple of days, it will likely be another headline...

Quite the feat, lighting up the east then the west, reorganizing the domestic academic circle followed by the international one... Could it be that guy wants to be a professional fraud buster?

This whole path has been spark-filled and electrifying, making it impossible to stay low-key even if one wanted to.

Although Gao Yuan wasn’t in scientific research, she could basically infer from the frequently used and exaggerated descriptive words from Zheng Dalu, such as "disruptive," "severe industry damage," "major upheaval," "set back by decades," and so on.

The fake paper had an enormous impact on the basic research of "Alzheimer’s disease"...

"If things go smoothly, then the influence of the news spreading should become apparent in a couple of days..."

Zheng Dalu, a scientist born within the system, still lacked the sense of the capital market.

Therefore, he didn’t realize that each industry shock was also a capital frenzy...

Two ordinary researchers from across the ocean knew how to capitalize on this news to make a fortune, yet all he thought of was the immense upheaval to the industry?

Way too unprofessional!

It seems that in the future, there’ll be a need to educate these scientific researchers on what "insider information" really means...

Lucky for her, she wasn’t too late in the know...

Soon, she locked onto the perfect target through Zero’s intelligence module.

"Mushu Technology..."

This company wasn’t an old pharmaceutical firm but was a small company of only 24 employees, which until a few years ago hadn’t made any name for itself.

That changed when the company developed a star product called "Simufilam."

Claiming to improve patients’ cognitive abilities by repairing a certain protein and preventing Aβ56 deposition, this pharmaceutical company instantly became a significant concept stock in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

Looking at the trend of the company’s stock price, it had increased more than tenfold since last year, favored by several financial institutions.

If what Professor Zheng said is true, then Aβ56 is a lie, and the efficacy of Simufilam is naturally false as well...

The industry is chaotic; the pharmaceutical sector is by no means pure land...

With a sigh, Gao Yuan instructed Zero to allocate funds to heavily short Mushu Technology.

Fighting fakery with skill, making a profit along the way seems reasonable, right?

Sometimes, Meng Lang’s tasks seem downright toxic!

Each time, quite coincidentally, they involve hot issues causing significant industry-wide shake-ups.

Bringing an unknown newcomer accidentally to the headline’s hot spot was one thing, Chang Chun the last time, and now Mushu Technology...

Is this the style of the "Wall-gazers" from the All Things Return to One Union?

Not a day goes by without overturning an industry; is that their way of saving the world...?

If every stage of the mission comes with a wave of industry devastation, then by shorting the relevant industries alone, one might acquire enough funds to initiate the next phase of industrial expansion, right?

Others earn money by investing in cutting-edge technological enterprises due to their insights; but look at us.

We rely on advanced technology to draw out the industry leaders for a targeted demolition, blow the whole industry into disarray, then short and scoop profits before bottom-fishing to enter the market...

One hand holding science, the other playing with capital.

Does this count as an alternative form of "techno-capitalism"?

Anyway... these tasks run very smoothly!

"Chairman Gao, the car is ready!"

Just then, a female bodyguard walked in.

"Hmm! Let’s go," Gao Yuan got up and put on her coat.

"Chairman Gao, where are we heading?"

Gao Yuan’s mouth curled into a smile.

"Bai Yu Pharmaceutical!"