Stanford president accused of research misconduct

Stanford University is overseeing an investigation into the research integrity of its own president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne.

Four neurobiology papers co-authored by the president, a prominent neurobiologist, are now under review for alleged scientific misconduct regarding altered images and other errors in several scientific journals.

The European Molecular Biology Journal, a prominent scientific publication, “confirmed to The [Stanford] Daily that it is reviewing a paper co-authored by [Tessier-Lavigne] for scientific misconduct following public allegations that the research contains multiple altered images.” …

Elisabeth Bik, a biologist and science misconduct investigator, disagreed. ​​

“Dr. Tessier-Lavigne will not brush off these concerns as irrelevant,” she wrote in an email to The Daily. “There appear to be a lot of visible errors in these papers, and some duplications are suggestive [of] an intention to mislead.”

(via Legal Insurrection)