Surgery Godfather-Chapter 1952 - 1335: Interview_2

He concluded, "Isn’t it just elevating the usual bragging to a strategic level? I can do it."

The first day, ten o’clock in the morning, Meeting Room Three.

Across sat Amelia, a senior reporter from Science magazine, and her photographer. Zhang Lin deliberately wore a Zhongshan suit, looking very formal. In front of him was a glass of water, a notebook, a pen, and nothing else.

"Teacher Zhang, thank you for accepting the interview," Amelia got straight to the point, "Let’s dive directly into the core issue: After the system regulation theory won the award, the biggest skepticism in academia is the insufficient scale of its clinical validation. How does Professor Yang Ping’s team respond?"

Zhang Lin leaned slightly forward, his fingertips meeting to form a "pyramid" shape, projecting a sense of authority.

"Mrs. Amelia, you’ve raised a very good question, one that touches on the fundamental contradictions of modern medicine in transition." His pace was calm, carrying an academic contemplation, "As we shift from the ’single target’ model to the ’system interaction’ model, the evaluation criteria itself need to change. The traditional ’large-scale double-blind trial’ model is designed for interventions involving single molecules and single pathways. But system regulation, as its name suggests, is concerned with restoring multi-node, dynamic balance. It’s like... you can’t use a scale to measure the harmony of a symphony."

Amelia took notes swiftly and pursued, "So, you’re saying that existing clinical validation standards don’t apply to your theory? Isn’t that somewhat arrogant?"

"Mrs. Amelia, you’re very smart, it’s quite rare for someone unfamiliar to comprehend my point so quickly! Quite the opposite." Zhang Lin smiled—a smile he’s practiced, gentle yet firm, "We fully respect the existing scientific validation system. In fact, all our clinical data are openly reviewed by peers. We’re merely proposing a supplementary consideration: when evaluating complex system interventions, should we introduce more dimensions beyond traditional endpoint indicators? For instance, system stability index, recovery elasticity coefficient, network disturbance tolerance... These concepts sound abstract, but we’ve developed preliminary quantification tools."

Every word he said was true; the team indeed discusses these concepts, and there indeed are "preliminary tools," although this "preliminary" might signify "still in the theoretical modeling stage." But it sounded as if they were already mature applications.

Amelia was clearly led astray, "Can you elaborate on these tools?"

"Of course, you’re truly an intelligent lady, this eases my mind considerably, I initially feared your misunderstanding due to difficult comprehension, but apparently, this concern is nonexistent; you can accurately grasp my every word." Zhang Lin opened the blank notebook and picked up the pen, "This is a very specialized topic. Simply put, we introduced the Lyapunov index from complex system theory to depict stability, used mutual information from information theory to measure the correlation strength between network nodes, and combined our self-developed physiological state phase space reconstruction algorithm..." He drew entirely unrelated geometric figures in the notebook, spewing a string of genuinely professional terms but put together, they conveyed no specific information.

Thirty minutes later, Amelia looked at her notebook filled with unfamiliar terms, her expression both confused and admiring, with a hint of nervousness.

She truly didn’t understand, but expressing a lack of comprehension could easily lead the public to mistakenly think she’s unprofessional, lacking intelligence, and scientific literacy. Since Teacher Zhang had repeatedly praised her for being smart and understanding his points, there’s no way she could expose her ignorance.

The ten sharp questions she initially prepared were now completely lost in the maze of terms Zhang Lin constructed.

As the interview ended, Amelia shook hands and said, "Teacher Zhang, you’ve given me a new angle of thinking, system medicine indeed needs new language for description."

Zhang Lin humbly nodded, "Science itself is a process of continuously creating new languages to describe new realities. Thank you for your profound thoughts; your scientific literacy impresses me. To be honest, understanding our theory requires a very high level of scientific literacy, otherwise, misunderstanding is very easy."

This was Zhang Lin tagging subsequent interviewers—if you misinterpret, deviating from my intended meaning, it reflects your poor scientific literacy and complete misunderstanding of what I’m saying.

In the monitoring room, watching the entire process via camera, Yang Ping, Tang Shun, and Song Zimo exchanged smiles.

This guy has a knack for "putting on airs."

"Did you see that?" Tang Shun pointed at the screen, "This guy handled it like a pro."

Song Zimo admiredly said, "He even managed to make the reporter feel that failing to understand was due to her inadequate knowledge base, not because he didn’t say anything clearly."

Yang Ping took a sip of tea, "Talent."

On the third day, at two o’clock in the afternoon, Meeting Room One.

This time it was the BBC documentary team, equipped with cameras, lighting, and recording equipment, creating an even larger setup. They were producing a segment on "the future of medicine," with Yang Ping’s award being the central Chapter.

Director David was an experienced science documentary producer, skilled in eliciting dramatic conflict through gentle inquiries. He opened with a few soft questions about the origins of the theory, which Zhang Lin handled easily. These stories he had heard many times, not posing any challenge to Teacher Zhang.

Then, David changed tack, "Professor Yang Ping won the Nobel Prize for the second time but refused to go to the awards ceremony, which is extremely rare in the scientific community. Some commentators believe this might be a negative response to the European cooperation center’s report on adverse reactions or indicative of internal team divisions. Can you reveal the real reason?"