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.”
So under his leadership it became more about positive results than it was about accurate results.
That’s not science, that’s marketing.
Give the guy a break! At least his students aren’t poisoning each other or anything…
You should feel bad for him. He’s lost everything. All he has left is the millions he’s made.
Cry me a million dollars.
You can’t blame him for that one.
Btw I dated a biochemist and they’re all insane.
Is it from all the biochemicals? I think it is from all the biochemicals.
Don’t forget the regular chemicals. Though I’m a bioanalytical chemist, so I likely use more of those than a typical biochemist.
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.
Maybe took inspiration from a guy at a different university
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.
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.
Yep. And it worked all the way up to the Stanford presidency. Even now he is “only” a tenured professor.