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.”
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.
https://www.science.org/content/article/harvard-behavioral-scientist-aces-research-fraud-allegations
Late stage capitalism strikes again.