The Brookhaven National Laboratory was able to convince a large number of American physicists to protest against the ILHCRC, causing quite a huge commotion in the international academic community.
Lu Zhou was a famous scholar that had yet to receive any kind of bad publicity prior to this. Hence, the media immediately jumped on the opportunity and reported on him intensively.
The Lunar Orbit Committee was heavily controlled by the state, and due to Chinese government policies, the Chinese media outlets did not dare to offend Lu Zhou.
However, outside of China, various news outlets had been having a field day. They had been calling him names such as "academic dictator" and "school of thought tyrant".
A CNN talk show mentioned this matter in their latest episode.
The invited guest was Dr. Kerella from Syracuse University.
