STAT+: Research misconduct allegations put Stanford’s president — and science — under an uncomfortable spotlight
STANFORD, Calif. — It’s the one thing everyone knows. And it’s the last thing people want to talk about openly.
But if you step away from Stanford University’s public spaces — its spacious courtyards surrounded by sandstone buildings and bike paths flanked by palm trees — a subject that almost feels too big to talk about emerges at last. It comes up in the cloistered confines of laboratories, in small gatherings of students and faculty, and in the quiet corridors of research buildings home to 11 Nobel Prize-winning scientists.
