SAN JOSE, Calif. — An academic research organization is “looking into” allegations of scientific misconduct involving Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the president of Stanford University, after online posts challenged the authenticity of multiple images published in a paper he co-authored.
Posts on PubPeer, an online forum in which users critique scientific papers, have previously alleged that a paper co-authored by Tessier-Levigne duplicated, inverted and stretched panels, despite the factors using different experimental conditions. The postings were reported by the Stanford Daily, the university’s student newspaper.
The Stanford Daily spoke to multiple scientific misconduct investigators, who confirmed there were “serious problems” with both the paper published in The European Microbiology Organization Journal and three others published in different publications, including two papers in which Tessier-Lavigne was the lead author.
