Although Morgan was tempted to trick Joshua, with the support of Scrooge's information, Joshua quickly saw the danger and withdrew all his money from the stock market by the end of the month and turned short. Joshua has been curious about what kind of "good news" will come at the beginning of the month that could cause the stock market to crash.

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"Have we verified all the realities?" Dr. Poole asked.

"Yes, doctor, there's nothing wrong with the real yàn itself." John replied.

"There is no problem with the real yàn itself, there are almost no loopholes in the derivation process, and the chain of evidence composed of a real yàn is also very detailed. Although there is no way to see this new microorganism called a 'virus', the evidence for the existence of this new species is very clear. This is a groundbreaking, groundbreaking, extremely important, extremely discussive, and forward-looking high-quality paper just as groundbreaking, groundbreaking, extremely important, and forward-looking. Dr. Poole applied every beautiful word he could think of to this new paper by Scrooge. Although he missed his wife's birthday celebration because of the paper, and was exiled to the balcony for most of the night with the owl, he didn't seem to be angry at all.

"Ah, Doctor. It caused you to miss your lady's birthday, don't you resent it at all? John asked quips.

"Ah, of course not. You have to know that science is eternal. Compared to eternal science, the individual, and even the entire human race, is very small. We are all just passing bys in this world, like those giant lizards of the Jurassic, and many years later, our existence can only be shown by fossils, when then, what is the point of a little personal thing? At that time, humanity may have been finished, the earth is new, and there may be intelligent life with three bodies, and I will be banished to the ...... at night What's it? It's not worth mentioning. Dr. Poole, realizing that he had accidentally slipped out, quickly diverted John's attention with something else.

"But I am very dissatisfied with the author of this paper, very dissatisfied!" Dr. Poole shook his head exaggeratedly, "If he shows up in front of me, I'm going to scold him!" ”

"Why?" John's attention was diverted from noticing, well, maybe he was deliberately pretending not to notice the "banishment to ...... at night" that Dr. Poole mentioned.

Because if you look at his papers, you see, he can actually start from such the most conventional facts, keenly discover the problem, grasp the key to the problem, make a scientific bold hypothesis, and then prove it with a rigorous chain of evidence in line with the spirit of science. How valuable is such a research intuition! John, you and I are both in science, can we still not know? In terms of talent in this area, neither of us is far from catching up with him, you see the phenomenon he initially studied, we have all encountered it, haven't we? This damn guy! He was as talented as Darwin, or even Sir Newton! I'm not jealous of him, but this guy is so squandered God's gift to him, has such talent, and puts all his mind on making his damn money! What's the use of money? Isn't it enough to spend enough? Can money last forever? Could it be that in the era when the Trisolarans ruled the earth like the ones I mentioned earlier, would his fossils still be able to use the money to trade with the Trisolarans? He was wasting his life! This damn dude! Dr. Poole said hatefully.

"Doctor, so we also want to publish a special number for this paper like the previous one?" John asked.

"Of course, because it's so important."

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Having just finished his fourth surgery of the day, Dr. Schweiter came out of the operating room exhausted. The patient was an appendicitis patient. Appendicitis used to be a big problem, and most patients would die from infections after surgery. But now it's not a big deal, just make an opening in the stomach, and then, cut off the inflamed appendix, clean the abdominal cavity, stitch it up, and then use the sea. Lo. For analgesia, it is enough to use a large amount of sulfonamide to stop the infection. Since Mr. Scrooge MacDonald discovered the danger of bacterial infection and came up with centralized disinfection methods and sulfonamides, a weapon against bacteria, the chance of postoperative infection is much smaller. As a surgeon, Schweitzer no longer has to lament that most of his work is useless.

Back in his office, Dr. Schweizer collapsed into the large high-backed chair and closed his eyes. He was so tired that he had been busy for four consecutive surgeries, for the entire twelve hours, from last night until today. Sometimes, the job of a surgeon is really not done by people.

Dr. Schweizer collapsed in his chair and fell asleep. After a while, a little nurse gently pushed the door open and walked in. She saw that Dr. Schweizer was asleep, and knew that he must have had several more surgeries today, so she did not wake him up, but gently placed a magazine on his errand, and then gently helped him close the curtains, and gently led the door out like a cat.

I don't know how long it took for Dr. Schweizer to finally wake up. He rubbed his eyes, stretched, and then noticed a new Lancet magazine on his desk.

"The new issue is coming out so quickly." Dr. Schweizer thought as he reached for the magazine. The magazine was heavy and thick, almost as thick as several previous copies. "Is it another very long paper like "The Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Therapeutic Effect of Certain Chemicals on Them?" Dr. Schweitzer thought irresponsibly.

Turning to the journal, the first paper is "Research on the Hypothesis and Actual Results of a New Microbial Caused by Yellow Fever, and the Discussion of Its Pathogenesis, Transmission Mode, Prevention and Treatment Methods", well, its author is ...... It's Mr. Scrooge MacDonald!

Dr. Schweitzer immediately cheered up and took the paper seriously.

"No specific bacteria were found in the blood of patients with yellow fever...... I suspect it's some kind of toxin...... The blood of the yellow fever patient was diluted with normal saline, filtered through a bacterial filter, and then the filtered solution was injected into the animals, which showed symptoms of yellow fever...... Moreover, there was no significant difference in the intensity of symptoms from the previous control group...... The toxin must be able to multiply on its own, it must be a microorganism that is smaller than the known bacteria and can pass through the guò filter net, which I named 'virus'...... I tried to grow it with agar...... There is no doubt that no inanimate nutrient can proliferate it, which means that it is by no means a bacterium...... From this, I thought that since the patient's blood contains this 'virus', whether the mosquitoes that feed on blood will be the murderers of this virus, so I devised such a practical ...... It turns out that mosquitoes do have the ability to transmit this 'virus', as avoiding mosquito bites is key to avoiding the dangerous yellow fever...... For this reason, I made this proposal...... Just as bacteria attack not only animals but also plants, I suspect that there may be some viruses that specifically attack plants......"

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"A virus that specifically attacks plants? The germs of tobacco mosaic disease are always undetectable, is this it? "An expert from the Royal Academy of Sciences, who specializes in tobacco cultivation, suddenly remembered the question." Hmm, maybe I can also verify it by following the method above. ”

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The Lancet's groundbreaking, groundbreaking, extremely important, highly discussed, and forward-looking high-quality paper immediately sparked a great debate in the European scientific community. And with the radio, the news was transmitted back to the United States almost immediately.

At this time, the United States was always discriminated against as a semi-barbarian by Europeans, but in this era, what could be more indicative of its civilization than the emergence of great scientists? Scrooge's widely praised paper has also made countless Americans feel bright. Soon, a host of media outlets came to the door to interview Scrooge about this complex scientific issue.

The next day, there was a talk show on the radio about the virus as a microorganism:

"Hello listeners, this is Discovery Channel, and I'm your old friend Bill. In today's program, we have the honor of inviting Mr. Scrooge MacDonald, one of the most famous contemporary scientists in the United States. He will explain to us what the virus is and how it was discovered. Welcome, Mr. MacDonald, and thank you for taking the time to join us. ”

"Mr. Bill, it's been my pleasure and I'm also a loyal listener of Discovery."

"Mr. MacDonald, can you tell me, when did you first think that there is a microorganism in this world that is different from bacteria? Is there any difference between this microorganism, called a virus, and the bacteria we've seen in microscopes before? ”

"Ah, it all started with the disaster in my company in Panama. At that time, I signed an employment contract with a labor company established by the Japanese government at the time, and hired a group of Japanese workers to dig the Panama Canal. Then the tragedy happened, when the terrible contagion, yellow fever, struck these workers, and tens of thousands of workers fell ill. I was on my way to Panama with some brave doctors -- and here I want to pay tribute to the brave medical workers who have been helping those patients in their struggle against death at the risk of contracting the disease. In the process, I found that none of the methods that we had worked in the past seemed to have any effect on yellow fever......"