I can't imagine how terrible this guy must feel. It's one thing to have to retract over an honest mistake, but to have to retract highly cited papers because your collaborator fabricated data is...
If having a paper retracted is traumatic, imagine how Steve Jackson feels. Jackson, of the University of Cambridge in England, lost articles in both Science and Nature on the same day after his coauthor was found to have committed research misconduct. Investigators at the school concluded that Jackson’s collaborator, Abderrahmane Kaidi, who resigned from his post at the University of Bristol in September 2018, had fabricated data in at least one of the papers, both of which were highly cited.
I can't imagine how terrible this guy must feel. It's one thing to have to retract over an honest mistake, but to have to retract highly cited papers because your collaborator fabricated data is all of that with an added dose of betrayal and lingering effects for you career. I understand that you should only sign on to a paper if you fully support the methods and results, but I can imagine being blindsided by a collaborator you trust.
I can't imagine how terrible this guy must feel. It's one thing to have to retract over an honest mistake, but to have to retract highly cited papers because your collaborator fabricated data is all of that with an added dose of betrayal and lingering effects for you career. I understand that you should only sign on to a paper if you fully support the methods and results, but I can imagine being blindsided by a collaborator you trust.