Academia is infested with corruption and Stanford University is on the list, just fired their own brain-tsar president

Just a week after Harvard Business researcher, Francesca Gino, made up phony results tied to research studies, including one focused on honest behavior, the New York Times reported, Stanford University is infected with the same corruption bug.

The University of Stanford, an Ivy League research institution and developers of AstraZenaca vaccine, found its president Marc Tessier-Lavogne guilty of scientific data manipulation, fraud, and other unethical research, involving dozens of research papers involving more than 50,000 documents.

Dr Tessier-Lavigne, a celebrated neuroscientist, has served as the president of Stanford for seven years. Before that, he led research laboratories for more than 30 years.

Tessier-Lavigne won’t be fired from the university, and will remain as a biology professor at Stanford, after his resignation as President takes effect on August 31. He has also stated his intention to continue his academic research into brain behavior and manipulation, or as he calls it, ”brain wiring and rewriting.”

The issue was first raised in an investigation by the Stanford Daily, the university’s student-run newspaper, which had questioned the substance of several of Tessier-Lavigne’s scientific papers. Some of the papers included research focused on brain manipulation research, such as turning on and off Axon neurons via Netrin proteins (Netrin1-DCC-Mediated Attraction Guides Post-Crossing Commissural Axons in the Hindbrain)

In reviewing records following a story in The Stanford Daily, it is clear that in October 2015, Marc Tessier-Lavigne became aware of issues with images in two Science studies on which he was co-author published in February 2001 and March 2001. (1/3) https://t.co/dfa6ANeOsY

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In January of this year, the university’s Board of Trustees engaged a panel to investigate allegations that Dr Tessier-Lavigne authored research papers that contained Photoshopped and manipulated data.

The 95-page report concluded that scientists and researchers in his labs had engaged in “subpar scientific practices” in about 12 research papers published during the last two decades.

There is no mention of the names of the many scientists who participated in the fraudulent research, nor is it clear who those individuals are or what corporations were financing the research.

The review, led by former federal judge Mark Filip and five scientists, considered more than 50,000 documents, analyses by forensic image specialists, dozens of interviews and correspondence with scientific journals.

Source BBC