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.
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.
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
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?
"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."
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.
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.
Never have I ever strangled my roommate, poisoned my advisor for suggesting I go into a different branch of physics, and created a weapon that deletes entire metropolitan areas.
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.