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.

His op-ed in the NYT:

nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion

#stanford #theobaker

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"In 2009, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, then a top executive at the biotechnology company , was the primary author of a paper published in the prestigious journal Nature that claimed to have found the potential cause for brain degeneration in ’s patients.
[…] Neither a correction nor a retraction was issued, and the paper stands to this day."

Impressive investigation by : stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/i 🧶

#genentech #scientific #alzheimer #theobaker #medicines #authorship #science #historyofscience #ethics

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