Posted on 07/19/2023 12:48:38 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he would resign from his post after an independent investigation found “serious flaws” in some of the research he oversaw decades earlier.
The panel of experts, which formed in January to look into allegations of research misconduct, found that Tessier-Lavigne did not personally engage in any fraud or manipulation of research data, nor did he have any knowledge of the malpractice going on in the lab.
Still, the report found that on various occasions, when concerns about his papers emerged, Tessier-Lavigne “failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record.”
In a statement Wednesday addressed to the “Stanford Community,” Tessier-Lavigne said he was “gratified” the panel found he did not engage in fraud but said he accepted the panel’s conclusions that there were things he “should have done better” to address mistakes.
“I agree that in some instances I should have been more diligent when seeking corrections, and I regret that I was not. The Panel’s review also identified instances of manipulation of research data by others in my lab. Although I was unaware of these issues, I want to be clear that I take responsibility for the work of my lab members,” he said in his announcement.
The panel examined 12 papers, seven of which listed Tessier-Lavigne as a nonprincipal author. The panel said, for those papers, he did not have any knowledge of the manipulation of research, did not have a role in the preparation of data that have been publicly challenged and “was not in a position where a reasonable scientist would be expected to have detected any such misconduct.”
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“Science” is desperate to win back the ground lost in the Covid debacle. My dad used to say “the truth ain’t what it used to be”.
Something is going on with big pharma and alzheimers. This is advance team clean-up with big pharma.
Oh, you mean all of science has not been “settled” yet?
You’re Dad was right!!
I browsed the linked paper; looks like his specialty is in Alzheimer’s research.
I’ll let others analyze what this means for the orthodox BS approach they’ve taken, likely moved by research now discredited.
Ethnology has been around since the late 1700s. Or are you rejecting the idea that the study of any social system is a ‘science’ at all? The term has always been applied to the organization of knowledge around a particular subject.
Except for a few places like Hillsdale College “”serious flaws”” is the norm most universities.
At Stanford University, they practice and inculcate the democRAT favorite of divide, divide, divide. They just love finding more and more ways to divide us up, and then pit one group against another. They are, after all, the party of segregation and the KKK.
Stanford University, while touting and celebrating ‘diversity’ has developed segregated housing: Ujamaa House is for African-American; Okada House is for Asians; Casa Zapata is for Chicanx and Latinx (99% of Spanish speakers do not like the new Latinx phraseology, and they do not speak Latin either).
The Stanford University website explains: “”Our ethnic theme communities have a rich and long history of engaging students at the highest levels of intellectual discovery and advancing diversity””
“Advancing diversity” by segregation. Sounds right out of 1984.
I thought this guys was still President of Stanford - Nelson ‘Big Head’ Bighetti!
“Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced Wednesday that he would resign from his post after an independent investigation found “serious flaws” in some of the research he oversaw decades earlier. dThe panel of experts, which formed in January to look into allegations of research misconduct, found that Tessier-Lavigne did not personally engage in any fraud or manipulation of research data, nor did he have any knowledge of the malpractice going on in the lab.”
sounds like some kind of witch hunt to me ... he’s lucky they didn’t recommend that he be burned at the stake ...
Guaranteed they will select a queer “POC” as the replacement.
The Dean of the Stanford Law School and Stanford Law’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Tirien Steinbach) should have immediately resigned after the shout-down of federal judge Kyle Duncan back in April. They are both still at Stanford Law.
In this current case, "the panel examined 12 papers, seven of which listed Tessier-Lavigne as a nonprincipal author." It sounds familiar -- the Dean wanted his name as co-author on many research papers and didn't even bother to read them, counting on honesty and integrity of the principal researchers. He didn't count on dishonesty by those researchers. Oops.
Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s Alzheimer’s research, colleagues allege
Settled science sure is unsettling.
> It sounds familiar — the Dean wanted his name as co-author on many research papers and didn’t even bother to read them, ...
Pretty standard actually. Aspiring postdocs are much advised to include the head of whatever lab as a co-author. A little sucking up never hurts in academia.
“Pretty standard actually.”
I worked in a research institute for many years and, in many ways, it operated like a university department. We had the same culture — lots of hangers-on and execs wanted their name on research papers regardless of how little (if any) they contributed. Being head of a department or division was enough.
“execs wanted their name on research papers regardless of how little (if any) they contributed.”
Not, my husband HATED that during his career. The execs lazing back in their chairs, feet on their desks, playing games on their computers. Then their names appear on the papers, even though they were clueless about the subject.
LOL! Great story.
My point was just that ‘science’ applies to many studies.
I think the poster to whom I responded was rejecting the USES to which some sciences are being perverted now - usually political ones.
(I don’t believe in ‘anthropogenic climate change’; but I don’t reject that Climate Science exists.)
By the way - do the Japanese generally even have basements?
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