Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign effective Aug. 31. He will also retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cited papers for which he was principal author after a Stanford-sponsored investigation found “manipulation of research data.”
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’sBoard of Trustees done warshed away all my sins and transgressions. It’s the straight and narrow from here on out, andheaven everlasting’sa well funded retirement is my reward.”