Theo Baker
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investigations. 2022 george polk award. words in @nytimes @theatlantic @nymag @stanforddaily and more. dm for signal. likes and rts are not endorsement. he/they
Joined January 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s Alzheimer’s research was called “the miracle result.” Now, colleagues allege that a 2011 internal review found “falsified data” and Tessier-Lavigne “walked around…with a broom and swept up the footprints in the dirt.” https://t.co/95L9Pes3jO
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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...
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BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says.
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A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in 2023.
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“‘It’s not a coincidence that a lot of the people questioning the existing establishment came from @Stanford,’ said Calley Means, a Stanford alumnus and health entrepreneur who has advised Trump.” The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | @scontorno @owermohle
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On 60 Minutes tonight, 4 @Harvard faculty, including our @cafharvard colleague @sapinker discuss the impact of government actions on biomedical research.
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Federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs for years. The White House is pressuring universities to align with the president's political agenda, or risk losing their funding.
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I repost my dad’s #Kristallnacht story every year. He turned 90 this summer, and he’s in great physical and mental shape (though very pissed about US politics). Can’t imagine there are many Holocaust survivors still so healthy.
My dad’s first memory is hiding under a table 80 years ago tonight, when Nazis took his dad to Dachau on #Kristallnacht.
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Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide.
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The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the...
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No hate to @jordihays, who does an admirable job of highlighting tech news. But this is a very bad take. And the @TBPN model is not and should not be the only approach to tech coverage…
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In the eyes of far too many tech people, only supplicant, fawning coverage can ever be appropriate—simply quoting a CEO directly is a hit piece. The shallow insecurity is ridiculous. If you’re confident in your product, you should relish an adversarial ecosystem.
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What shocked me most about the death threats sent to teachers in Arizona in recent days was that they didn't come from extremists on fringe platforms, these were sent from seemingly regular people on Facebook. Here's a sample of what they sent: https://t.co/PNknxGEdGj
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On this day 225 years ago, John Adams moved into the still-not-quite-complete White House, becoming the first president to occupy it. His blessing was carved into the State Dining Room mantel in 1945: "May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
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“They’re a rotten crowd…”
Trump and Rubio at the Mar-a-Lago Halloween Party, on day 31 of the shutdown. Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.
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Stanford professor denied treatment for stage 4 cancer, partially re-approved following viral post.
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Medical school professor Bryant Lin's insurance company denied approval for Rybrevant, a drug used to treat stage 4 cancer.
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Of note: both Persis Drell, who served as Tessier-Lavigne’s provost, and Steve Neal, Tessier-Lavigne’s personal lawyer, serve on the 12-person Nvidia board.
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Jensen Huang appears onstage with former @Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the Nvidia GTC conference. Tessier-Lavigne resigned in 2023 after an investigation into falsified research data emerged from his labs. In 2024, he raised a billion dollars for his new startup.
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Read it for yourself here. You won’t regret it. https://t.co/nrI8S143aD
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In a celebrated essay, a dying columnist glimpses her daughter’s future.
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Around this time every year, I re-read Marjorie Williams’ indelible final article in @washingtonpost. It is a wrenching, beautiful, and unforgettable piece of writing. I never met Marjorie, who died just four days after I was born, yet her words are immortal.
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.@SRuhle continues to champion student journalists across the country facing stiff resistance to their work. Her segment on censorship at Inidana University and solidarity from @purdueexponent journalists, as well as @StanfordDaily’s ongoing lawsuit: https://t.co/kjoAV6yaKy
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greatest essay to come out of harpers in a while but unfortunately he doesnt understand the zoomer. We hate other bodies. We have psychically evolved away the need to be around other people—to befriend them, have sex w them—that older generations have
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Thank you to everyone on here who has been so supportive of my book 1929. It just hit @nytimes bestseller list! 🙏
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Sequoia HQ is up the hill from @Stanford. Its managing partner is on the board of the university, and the VC firm has endowed positions and fellowships. The firm also invested in ex-Stanford President Tessier-Lavigne's company after he resigned amid a research misconduct affair.
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