Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers

Spacebar, 10 months ago

So under his leadership it became more about positive results than it was about accurate results.

That’s not science, that’s marketing.

danhasnolife, 10 months ago

Yep. And it worked all the way up to the Stanford presidency. Even now he is “only” a tenured professor.

fiat_lux, 10 months ago

Unfortunately that's how modern science works. The scientists with the best marketing skills get the grants, get their work mentioned in the media, and hence, get more prestigious work.

He is both a result of a broken system, and then became one of its key perpetuators. I bet he made some sweet bags of cash doing it.

DoctorNope, 10 months ago

Give the guy a break! At least his students aren’t poisoning each other or anything…

hamster, 10 months ago

You should feel bad for him. He's lost everything. All he has left is the millions he's made.

Streetdog, 10 months ago

Cry me a million dollars.

Hank, 10 months ago

You can't blame him for that one.
Btw I dated a biochemist and they're all insane.

Contramuffin, 10 months ago

Studied biochemistry as a major, currently am a microbiology grad student. Biochemistry attracts a certain type of person. Imagine smashing your head against a brick wall. That’s how it feels like to do biochemistry.

People who do biochemistry are brilliant but wow, they’re intense. At least they’re not evolutionary ecologists.

HobbitFoot, 10 months ago

Is it from all the biochemicals? I think it is from all the biochemicals.

Tavarin, 10 months ago

Don’t forget the regular chemicals. Though I’m a bioanalytical chemist, so I likely use more of those than a typical biochemist.

Sup3rlativ3, 10 months ago

The entire system just seems broken and encourages this type of behaviour. Just look at the Francesca Gino situation. I’m sure as this gets more attention, other discoveries will be made.

science.org/…/harvard-behavioral-scientist-aces-r…

DulceMaria, 10 months ago

Late stage capitalism strikes again.

AlbigensianGhoul, 10 months ago

Retracting a paper is a rare act, especially for a scientist of Tessier-Lavigne’s stature. A database of retractions shows that only four in every 10,000 papers are retracted.

If you’ve ever read published research for a living, this statistic is frighteningly low.

freagle, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

This is to be expected in Eurocentric nations. Lying and cheating is an ancient and fundamental part of their culture.

Hank, 10 months ago

Thank you for your insight as a person from a vastly superior culture that prevails corruption and fights for rightousness for everyone... For everyone, right? Concerned Padme face

freagle, 10 months ago

Just experimenting with duplicating comments I’ve seen others make about China.

MisterMoo, 10 months ago

So in his telling he was exonerated of wrongdoing, but he's retracting a bunch of papers and resigning as the president of Stanford. People really can tell themselves anything, can't they?

Overzeetop, 10 months ago

So in his telling he was exonerated of wrongdoing

"Well that's it, boys. I've been redeemed. The preacher's Board of Trustees done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It's the straight and narrow from here on out, and heaven everlasting's a well funded retirement is my reward."

FaceDeer, 10 months ago

At some point soon they're going to be turning AIs loose on the collected scientific archives of history, I'm very curious to see how much long-forgotten and undetected fraud is going to be dug up by them. Four retractions per ten thousand articles seems like an implausibly low average given that humans are involved in writing these things.

HobbitFoot, 10 months ago

Looks like Big Head didn’t realize what he was doing.