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Chinese PhD dropout turned whistle-blower exposes data fabrication by renowned scholars
A Chinese PhD dropout turned whistleblower is exposing data fabrication by renowned scholars, gaining over two million followers online. Geng Hongwei, a former bioscience PhD candidate at Beihang University, dropped out in 2025 and gained public attention for questioning a paper from a research team in April.
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