Following the Controversy, Stanford University President Step down from His Position

By | Bullscore 20 Jul, 2023

The President of Stanford University is thinking about stepping down from his position on 31 August following all the Controversial talk that’s been going around.

According to the reports, it all started when Marc Tessier-Lavigne who is the current president, allegedly manipulated research data. He plans to “retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cited papers for which he was principal author after a Stanford-sponsored investigation.”

Here’s more from the Stanford Daily:

“At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Tessier-Lavigne failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record,” Stanford’s report said, identifying a number of apparent manipulations in Tessier-Lavigne’s neuroscientific research.

The report concluded that the fudging of results under Tessier-Lavigne’s purview “spanned labs at three separate institutions.” It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data).”

It still has not been proven that he himself manipulated the data, but not defending himself even after giving the opportunity shows it all. Whatever the case, he will be resigning from his position next month.

The university now will be in dire need of a new president. Let’s wait and see who will take up the position.