Oh! Bixia! Oh! First Emperor of China! please give me funding! I beg you! I can deliver for you, Elixir of Immortality! Mercury! Bixia! Mercury is the key element to unlock the secret to immortality! Oh! Your Excellency President Xi! please give me funding! I can deliver for you, the world's first working quantum computer that can replaces the classical computer. Just nurture my research and academic career until I can retire comfortably as an emeritus professor at age 80, this is a very very very difficult research project, it needs a lots of time, manpower, resources and paper publications. Sounds convincing enough? Your University president/chancellor and your PhD supervisor are walking back to their offices, laughing. "True, true, as long as the head of a nation or a government cannot answer the question "From where does the industry comes from?" completely and verbally on the spot under 10 seconds, then he is a fool and a fool and his money soon part way!, So let us continue milk the government funding into the university coffer (allocations for kickback money to government officials and journal subscriptions)". A beggar, a scammer, a bullshitter and a thief = A Scientist-Professor.

Kung Ming replied, "There are scholars and scholars. There is the noble scholar, loyal and patriotic, of perfect rectitude a hater of any crookedness. The concern of such a scholar is to act in full sympathy with his day and leave to future ages a fine reputation. There is the scholar of the mean type, a pedant and nothing more. He labours constantly with his pen, in his callow youth composing odes and in hoary age still striving to understand the classical books completely. Thousands of words flow from his pen but there is not a solid idea in his breast (📃Western academics and scholars with "Publish or Perish" mentality📝✒). He may, as did Yang Hsiung, glorify the age with his writings and yet stoop to serve a tyrant as Mang. No wonder Yang threw himself out of a window; he had to. That is the way of the scholar of mean type. Though he composes odes by the hundred (publish papers!!📝), what is the use of him?". _____________________ University academia system (number of publications and citations) can be easily game and hack in order to gain PhD, tenure, professorship, promotion, etc.. Just learn how to write research papers before you begin your undergraduate classes. Paper-publications professor "The Way of a cruel, mean pendant scholar" (your written words exceed your deeds) vs genuine scientist.

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