Rebirth of the God-level Xueba

"Mr. Yang Rui, hello." The two Americans saw Yang Rui at a glance.

The center of the crowd's attention, young and handsome, very recognizable.

Yang Rui smiled and nodded.

"Mr. Yang Rui, this is Mr. Sherwood, and this is Mr. Gibson. Mr. Sherwood is the technical director of our factory, and Mr. Gibson is the director of our factory." Manager Xiao stood behind and made an introduction, still a little nervous.

For the staff of Coca-Cola China, the discussion in the conference room is definitely something they don't like very much. Not only do they not like it, but they are also terrible.

Yang Rui is much more at ease. In fact, he also participated in too few meetings, or participated in too few such activities. Grades, proper top class bully.

The internal research institutes of state-owned enterprises are already weak. Except for ministerial-level state-owned enterprises such as the Ministry of Railways and the Ministry of Petroleum, COFCO and others are not as good as Jiangnan University's food science strength, let alone the little-known Comrade Chang Shihui.

This is also the benefit of having a strong reputation. Yang Rui is just not used to the change of his identity.

On the other hand, his status as a student has slightly affected his performance. Otherwise, just because he has already obtained nearly one million dollars in funding, countless small researchers will come over or run away.

Sherwood and Gibson are Coca-Cola's technical masters in China, and they are also important officials who most often participate in academic activities in China. Everyone greeted them one after another.

Sherwood and Gibson dealt with it one by one, and then with a smile on their faces, they said, "Mr. Yang Rui, is it convenient for us to have a private chat?"

"Let's talk here." Yang Rui used English to avoid the interference of the translator.

Sherwood hesitated for a moment, and said with a smile, "Mr. Yang Rui's English is really good."

"I mainly read English literature, and the conversation is not very comfortable." Yang Rui also accompanied the conversation.

Sherwood originally wanted to pull Yang Rui into the corner to negotiate terms directly, just like a company encounters negative media reports and immediately considers advertising in the media, such as a large company like Coca-Cola, encountering negative research from the media, The first time is also to fund the scholar's research.

Of course, how much to fund and how to fund depends on the level of the scholar and the aggressiveness of the negative research.

If it is a nonsense study,

Many companies ignore it, but if it is research done by a professor at a top university, even if there is only one name, big companies dare not take it lightly. God knows which day he will go to court and he will become an expert witness.

In addition, the situation in China is more complicated. Coca-Cola China also pays more attention to the public image. The academic conference that was finally invited almost turned into a denunciation conference. This is the reason for Manager Xiao's fear.

For Americans like Sherwood, heat and phosphoric acid are also topics they don't want to talk about.

Before coming over, Sherwood and Gibbs discussed a research grant—actually a PR grant—of $2,000. It doesn’t sound like much, but in 1984, US$2,000 was a reasonable donation in the United States. Professors at prestigious schools, such as the University of Mississippi, donated thousands of dollars in corporate donations in addition to research funding from public funds. It's already considered a big deal.

Donations of research funds worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, if not for special purposes, must come from special people, such as Rockefeller, such as Carnegie.

Coca-Cola also donates a lot of funds every year. However, considering that they have to spend money in hundreds of countries, and the most important United States of America, there is not much money that can be distributed to Chinese companies.

2,000 US dollars, equivalent to 20,000 yuan, is not a bad figure in Sherwood's mind.

However, Yang Rui refused to talk alone, and Sherwood could only keep his offer in his heart.

After thinking about it, Sherwood said, "I have some doubts about the animal experiments that Mr. Yang mentioned. Mr. Yang Rui only designed experiments, but did not implement them?"

Yang Rui said, "That's right."

"We at Coca-Cola have actually done some animal experiments, using mice, but the results may be something that Mr. Yang Rui doesn't want to hear."

I am open to academic discussions, as long as there are beautiful results, I don't care about the results themselves. "

"Then let me talk about the experiment we did, Manager Xiao, please translate for everyone." Some Chinese people present still can't speak English, or their English proficiency is poor. Sherwood decided to give Yang Rui a fatal blow. Naturally, I hope everyone Can see and hear.

In his heart, Sherwood is unwilling to be hostile to Yang Rui. The main business strategy of Coca-Cola in China is to make friends and find common ground.

However, Sherwood and Gibson's rights are limited, and Yang Rui doesn't like $2,000, so they can only try other ways to eliminate the influence.

After a few seconds of deliberation, Sherwood asked: "Mr. Yang Rui, you talked about the calorie problem of Coca-Cola earlier. You think that Coca-Cola will make teenagers obese because of its sugar content, right?"

"It's not just teenagers, the obesity problem caused by carbonated drinks should be in the whole age group."

"Okay, next, do you think you can use animal experiments to prove your point?"

"Then you said that you have done relevant animal experiments, and your views are at odds with mine." Yang Rui said this cooperatively, in order to let scholars who are not good at English catch up with the rhythm.

Sherwood was very happy with Yang Rui's cooperation, but felt that he was a little silly, paused for a few seconds, and delivered a fatal blow, "We fed the mice a large dose of Coca-Cola for a long time, and set up a control group. After 4 weeks, Observe the body weight of the mice that drank carbonated beverages. As a result, the mice that consumed carbonated beverages in large doses for a long time lost weight!"

Gibson also followed up and said: "Mr. Yang Rui just said that he wanted to design animal-controlled experiments. Now it seems that you don't need to design any more. Your theory itself may still be flawed. If you still need animal experiment materials If so, we can apply to the headquarters and fax the relevant experimental data, but the experiment is repeatable and has been recognized by many scholars."

The two talked continuously, making Manager Xiao, who was doing the translation, flustered.

At this moment, the scene in the conference hall became a little strange.

First of all, the experts and professors who can understand English shouted in unison, and then the experts and professors who could not understand English gave a belated admiration.

But no matter what kind of person it is, the expression is a little subtle.

Yang Rui was not as depressed as people imagined. Coca-Cola and other companies in the 1980s may still be able to promote the pseudoscience of smoking sterilization like the tobacco companies in the 1920s, but they came from later generations. Anyone who drinks a lot of carbonated drinks for a long time and can lose weight will open a gym. It's good to die.

The advantage of science lies in its authenticity. The true cannot be faked, and the fake cannot be true. No matter how good the church is, it cannot make the sun revolve around the earth. Yang Rui directly searched for information in his mind.

A large company like Coca-Cola generally does not engage in pure scientific research fraud. However, if some factors are deliberately omitted and pretended to be of a poor level, the risk is very small.

Enron, which is also one of the top 500 companies in the world, has been making fake accounts for many years without being discovered, so companies like Coca-Cola must not be held in high regard.

After thinking about it for a long time, when Sherwood and others wondered if they had won a complete victory, Yang Rui asked, "Did you record the food intake of the mice while feeding them carbonated drinks?"

"what?"

"I know that long-term consumption of carbonated beverages in large quantities will suppress the appetite of mice, resulting in reduced food intake. This is another unhealthy aspect of carbonated beverages. However, in human studies, it seems that such phenomena are rarely found..." Yang Rui's Briefly, it was like a bolt of lightning that made Sherwood's and Gibson's hair stand on end.

They are technicians, not researchers. Although there is only one word difference, in the academic field, the gap between a technician and a scientific researcher is like the difference between a monkey picking bananas and a worker picking bananas.

Let them do it, let them retell it, no problem.

However, Sherwood and Gibson still felt weak when asked them to have a big academic debate.

This is a genius who has published cells.

Moreover, this genius has now been proven that the papers they mentioned do have flaws that have not involved food intake.

If it is a professional professor from a famous North American school, it is not surprising that they know Coca-Cola's tricks, but Yang Rui's performance is undoubtedly beyond their cognition.

A few seconds later, Sherwood and Gibson made a decision in unison.

"Manager Xiao, please take everyone to visit the next project site." Sherwood thought to himself: Since you don't want to go out, let others go out.

The Chinese scholars left the conference room in good spirits.

Before leaving, several people winked at Yang Rui, or even cast envious eyes.

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