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.”
Sounds like he was running a toxic lab culture where the only way to get recognized was to “win” at science by getting a result that looked groundbreaking. No surprise that fraud was happening and that he was preserving his plausible deniability.