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Manipulation of western blot images... Tale as old as time.
The panel report is careful to say there's no evidence he was directly involved, but the issues affect multiple papers with different co-authors over many years, on which he's the common link, so... ๐ค๐ค๐ค...
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.