After a panel of scientists released their review of Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s scientific research Wednesday, the neuroscientist agreed to retract three papers and said he would.
After a panel of scientists released their review of Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s scientific research Wednesday, the neuroscientist agreed to retract three papers and said he would resign as president of Stanford University. The panel said it found „serious flaws“ with the research data in five papers that listed Tessier-Lavigne as lead author, though its eight-month investigation found no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne personally manipulated data or engaged in other misconduct, the Wall Street Journal reports. The AP reports that he was cleared of the most serious allegations, „that a 2009 paper published in the scientific journal Nature was the subject of a fraud investigation and that fraud was found.
