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"In 2009, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, then a top executive at the biotechnology company #Genentech, was the primary author of a #scientific paper published in the prestigious journal Nature that claimed to have found the potential cause for brain degeneration in #Alzheimer’s patients.
[…] Neither a correction nor a retraction was issued, and the paper stands to this day."
Impressive investigation by #TheoBaker: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-falsified-data-in-stanford-presidents-alzheimers-research-colleagues-allege/ #medicines #authorship #science #historyOfScience #ethics 
Maurer said he was assigned to develop #drugs based on the 2009 paper. He told The #Stanford Daily that his superior informed him that “the project is being canceled and it’s because they found falsified #data.”
“I don’t think anyone at Genentech would be interested in this becoming public,” said Maurer, adding that “it’s a dent in the #reputation.”
Another senior scientist said that withdrawing the paper would have been viewed as “sullying Marc’s/Genentech’s reputation.”