Dossier
data fabrication
Coverage of data fabrication in the Nexus archive.
- 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.