Something like this happened/is happening to a professor that I worked for in grad school. He has retracted several papers and will probably be retracting at le

Something like this happened/is happening to a professor that I worked for in grad school. He has retracted several papers and will probably be retracting at least one more from top journals (Nature, Science, etc). Fortunately for me I was only in the group for a very short time and never had any publications as a result. This can't be said for the other students I knew in the group, although it was one of the grad student co-authors who apparently "turned him in". My assessment of the situation is that the prof is extremely capable, but the pressures of being a tenure-track assistant professor, probably combined with the arrogance of thinking he could get away with faking data, made it too tempting. I think he will certainly end up shut out of academia, but at the same time I don't think you'll hear about it, because too many people stand to lose face if it is publicized. I think this is probably the most common outcome of "scientific misconduct" when it is actually caught and punished.