Tenure is supposed to protect teachers and researchers from getting fired for non-academic reasons. An institution that retains someone who falsified their research would be condoning that fraud. There is a much larger amount of fraud or at least misrepresentation of data in scientific publishing than most people realize.
Tenure is supposed to protect teachers and researchers from getting fired for non-academic reasons. An institution that retains someone who falsified their research would be condoning that fraud. There is a much larger amount of fraud or at least misrepresentation of data in scientific publishing than most people realize.