Academic fraud-exposing blogger Geng Tongxue released a video pointing out that a rice immunity research paper, with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University professor Wang Gang as co-first author, has problems including duplicated data, anomalous values, and repeated images; the corresponding author is Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher Wang Ertao.
On September 14, academic anti-fraud blogger "Geng Tongxue" published a video publicly questioning two first-authored papers by Zhang Yaohua, a researcher at Peking University Third Hospital and recipient of the Overseas Outstanding Youth grant, pointing out multiple data anomalies, fixed constant conversions, and image duplications.
On September 14, Student Geng stated in a questioning video that there are 4 duplicated images across different plates in two first-author papers by Zhang Yaohua.
On September 14, Student Geng stated in a questioning video that among Zhang Yaohua's two first-author papers, another two sets of data differ by 10000 item by item.
On August 13, 2026, blogger Geng tongxue (Student Geng) released a video publicly accusing, under his real name, a paper published by a Zhejiang University research team in Nature Cell Biology of multiple instances of data fabrication and academic misconduct.
On May 27, 2026, the academic fraud-exposing blogger "Geng Tongxue" publicly accused journal papers published by National Outstanding Young Scholar (Jieqing) scholars at Central South University and Tongji University of containing duplicated, fabricated data, and revealed that he had previously received a call from a middleman demanding money to settle the matter privately and take the video down.
On February 4, 2025, in response to Beihang University student Geng publicly blasting his Russian Academy of Engineering academician status for lacking research achievements, Ding Zhifeng brought company executives to Beihang to talk with Geng in person, triggering a confrontation and debate.