"All measurements were real!" Zhang Bo hurriedly said, "I bought their product, used standard instruments for synchronized testing comparison, recorded all the data discrepancies, and the analysis method is an open statistical method. I've open-sourced the code on GitHub. The talk of commercial secrets is baseless; I completely performed black-box testing without accessing their core code."
"Then there's nothing to be afraid of. Why are you so tense over such a small thing?" Tang Shun put down the lawyer's letter. "Scientific questioning relies on data and facts. As long as your method withstands scrutiny, your data isn't falsified, and your conclusions are logically derived, it's not defamation."
"But... lawsuits require money and time..." Zhang Bo's voice grew softer, "I'm just an ordinary postdoctoral researcher..."
