Two days later.
At six in the morning, the School of Pharmacy cafeteria.
As usual, Yu Banmeng and Cha Xinran sat at a table by the window, chewing fried dough sticks while scrolling through their phones.
They usually ate quickly, but today they were unusually leisurely. It was winter vacation, after all, and they had become somewhat lax.
As she scrolled, Yu Banmeng cried out softly, "Holy crap! The academic fraud-busting feature has posted an announcement! It's exposing twelve fraudulent papers published in Science!"
"How many?" Cha Xinran jolted and hurriedly opened the Interstellar Scientific Research Platform.
Sure enough, a new article had appeared on the previously empty academic fraud-busting page just a minute earlier:
The twelve papers published in Science are suspected of academic fraud
The author was astonishingly listed as the "Academic Fraud Detection Model"!
The two clicked in to read it. The content was extremely straightforward. It listed the titles and publication dates of the papers one by one, then used screenshots to point out the fraudulent sections.
Some involved falsified experimental images. Images from other papers had been cut, recolored, rotated, and reused. The article pasted the original images right beside them, making the truth obvious at a glance!
Some involved falsified experimental data. The data was highlighted in red, followed by a long string of complicated mathematical formulas demonstrating that the distribution was abnormal.
Some involved falsified textual descriptions, which were also highlighted extensively in red.
All kinds of fraudulent details were listed one by one in meticulous detail, like close-up photographs of evidence taken by the police at a crime scene. Four words practically spilled off the screen—ironclad evidence!
Cha Xinran scrolled to the bottom and found the comment section already in an uproar. Comments in all kinds of languages had poured in by