After the comment was published, Yang Ping received an email from the editorial department of Nature.
The editor said the article "has sparked far more attention than expected," and attached a media monitoring report. The report showed that in the past seventy-two hours, more than four hundred media outlets worldwide had reprinted or quoted the arguments of this article, covering almost all channels from academic journals to mass news, from podcasts to short videos. The editor wrote at the end of the email: "Professor Yang, you may need to be mentally prepared, this article has already stepped out of the academic circle."
