This doesn't make sense. Being scooped means other people published the same idea before you.
If he truly believes the released data were fake, he can for sure publish his results. It’s not unusual for scientists to have different views on certain subjects. Some journals even have specific discussion sections for contradictory results. Finding the truth and correcting scientific records is also an achievement.
And quit a lot of publications are not grand breaking ideas. Incremental improvements can also be published.
I don’t understand your friend’s rationale to abandon the whole project he already started and didn’t want to find the truth and prove his theory (maybe it’s a different field thing).
It is overly simplification. I think the sentiment in China is really not about supporting Russia; it is about anti-US.
Because quite a lot of people in China think US is organizing an Eastern NATO, to "destabilize" the whole region. For example, the nuclear-powered marine deal with Australia, etc. Biden’s first year was much harsher on China than Russia.
In 1999, NATO bombed the Chinese embassy, killing 3, that certainly did not help.
Thanks for developing this wonderful tool. Just tried it. The HTML output looks great.
I use R Markdown extensively. I am wondering if R Markdown is retiring? Should I begin to switch to Quarto? And is there a way to change the default code font to ligatures fonts (for example Fira Code)?