On September 20, 2024, facing rumors continuing to swirl online about his "results being plagiarized and suppressed," Zhu Yuejun accepted a public interview to clarify the facts. He stated explicitly that his results had not been stolen, and that his failure to graduate back then was due to disagreements with his supervisor over research approaches that he refused to compromise on, rather than deliberate suppression by his supervisor; he said he had been unlucky but did not regret it, and that he had always been full of admiration for the pioneering contributions to medicine made by senior scholars such as Academician Wang Zhenyi.