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Worth noting that, according to the report from Stanfords commitee investigating this, he wasn't the primary person working on the data and was assumed not to know about the actual data manipulation.
That's not to say it's pretty bad that he didn't raise concerns himself when reviewing whatever he puts his name on (or taking 20 years for such allegations to take good), but he didn't blatantly make up data himself and denied it. Still dumb, yes, but I wouldn't crucify him yet. Maybe just give him a few hard bitch slaps or something.
He directly pressured his researchers to produce "correct" results (to whatever the extent of "rewards" means).
Ah, didn't see that. Granted, I just went through the report quickly. I don't want to go "everything-ducks" too fast, but yeah... wrong timeline for that I suppose