Academic integrity also requires Student Geng, as well as market mechanisms.

Recently, science popularization blogger "Geng Classmate Tells Stories" has brought several prestigious universities and many renowned scholars' papers into the public questioning arena, also placing himself at the center of public opinion.

As his attention increased, the outside world began to discuss his motivation for fact-checking: is he gaining traffic by exposing falsehoods? Are there institutional operations behind it? To avoid suspicion, he even解除了与MCN机构的签约 to prove his innocence.

This choice is understandable, but actually unnecessary. Academic fact-checking requires professionalism, evidence, and procedures, but does not require fact-checkers to be "profitless." If fact-checking can only rely on the enthusiasm and self-sacrifice of a few people, it will be difficult to sustain long-term.

Effective academic correction indeed needs external incentives and market mechanisms to participate. Serious fraud cases have also occurred in top international journals, one typical example being the paper in Alzheimer's disease research that was ultimately retracted by Nature.

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