![]() The reader might wonder how many non-visible errors might be present in other parts of the data.” “Dismissing these as not affecting the data is not very reassuring. There appear to be a lot of visible errors in these papers, and some duplications are suggestive an intention to mislead,” she wrote. Tessier-Lavigne will not brush off these concerns as irrelevant. “I do not agree with statement that these issues have no bearing on the data or the results,” Bik wrote The Daily in an email Monday night. Of the other two, the University wrote that the issues “do not affect the data, results or interpretation of the papers.”īik, though, disagreed with the University’s assertion that the “mistakes” do not impact the scientific integrity of the papers. Spokesperson Dee Mostofi wrote Tessier-Lavigne “was not involved in any way in the generation or presentation of the panels that have been queried” in two of the papers, including the paper under review, which was published in The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Journal. The University acknowledged “issues” in the papers but downplayed Tessier-Lavigne’s role in the potential misconduct in a statement Monday night. Allegations regarding these four papers and multiple others have been made repeatedly over the last seven years on PubPeer, a site that allows scientists to identify suspected anomalies in publications. ![]() Tessier-Lavigne is the lead author on two of these papers.īik’s suspicions of manipulated imagery were corroborated independently in interviews by The Daily with two other misconduct researchers who reviewed the papers. Three other papers published in Science and Nature by the University president also contain “serious problems,” according to Elisabeth Bik, a biologist and science misconduct investigator routinely featured in outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker and Nature, who was contacted by The Daily last month to review several separate allegations. ![]() A prominent research journal has confirmed to The Daily that it is reviewing a paper co-authored by University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne for scientific misconduct following public allegations that the research contains multiple altered images. ![]()
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