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.
