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Stanford president resigns over manipulated research (stanforddaily.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cyd to c/science

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

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.