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.”
  • SpaceBar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    1 year ago

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

    That’s not science, that’s marketing.

      • hamster@kbin.social
        32·
        1 year ago

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

      • Hank@kbin.social
        71·
        1 year ago

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

          • Tavarin@lemmy.world
            5·
            1 year ago

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

        • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 year 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.

        • DoctorNope@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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.

          Two out of three of those, **at most.

    • fiat_lux@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year 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.

    • danhasnolife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

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

  • MisterMoo@kbin.social
    30·
    1 year 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@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year 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@kbin.social
    241·
    1 year 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.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    14·
    1 year 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@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    432·
    1 year ago

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

    • Hank@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year 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