Warner Bros, Amy Pascal Win ‘How To Rule The World’ Auction; Freshman Theo Baker Forced Resignation Of Nobel Shortlisted Stanford U President With Articles For School’s Newspaper
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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and producer Amy Pascal have emerged victorious in a spirited book rights auction for How to Rule the World: Yacht Parties, Culture Wars and the Downfall of a President at St…
Book Market Picking Up As Universal Buys ‘Run For Your Life’ Short Story Package; Britney Spears Memoir & Journo Student’s Takedown Of Stanford U Prexy Also Spark Bids: The Dish
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I'm still blown away by Theo Baker, the freshman at Stanford who dug into data and image manipulation in heavily cited research papers, ultimately forcing the president of Stanford to resign. Yet the media is all over the Taylor Swift concert in Santa Clara. #theobaker #stanford
His op-ed in the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion/stanford-president-student-journalist.html?smid=url-share
"In 2009, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, then a top executive at the biotechnology company #Genentech, was the primary author of a #scientific paper published in the prestigious journal Nature that claimed to have found the potential cause for brain degeneration in #Alzheimer’s patients.
[…] Neither a correction nor a retraction was issued, and the paper stands to this day."
Impressive investigation by #TheoBaker: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-falsified-data-in-stanford-presidents-alzheimers-research-colleagues-allege/ #medicines #authorship #science #historyOfScience #ethics 🧶
His paper was called “the miracle result.” But it never turned into an Alzheimer’s treatment. Now, four former Genentech senior scientists and executives allege that an internal review in 2011 discovered the paper had been based on fabricated research — and that Marc Tessier-Lavigne kept the results of the review from becoming public. He denies the allegations.
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