to look into those allegations and concerns posted years earlier on PubPeer, an online forum for commenting on papers, about images in several other papers. The committee hired a law firm to review the papers in consultation with five prominent researchers from outside Stanford.
posted on his lab web page, Tessier-Lavigne called the claims of falsified data and a coverup “completely and utterly false.” He pointed to 2012 and 2014 papers from his own group that did not support some of the original 2009 findings; this was part of the normal progression of science, he said. In a statement today, he said: “I am not surprised by Genentech’s report, which directly and unequivocally refutes the false and hearsay rumors concerning the 2009 Nature paper and related research.
Yeah, right. What's the benefit for a big pharm like Roche (Genentech) to say otherwise, damaging its own reputation, leading to the retraction of their own paper, or killing a successful career of its former star scientist?
Circling the wagons for the powerful. Read Theo Baker reporting - they could not exclude it. Besides why did scientist lose his job as did another implicated in another misconduct case? and What about his coauthor Else Stein - who is she?