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Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty. Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy. www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

In 2023, I wrote an @nytimes.com essay about how journals, institutions, scientists, and journalists have been slow to confront research integrity. With everything now, I want to reshare it. Honest investigation can’t fall by the wayside even as bad-faith actors attack. It has to be the opposite.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In an editorial this week, Science editor-in-chief @holdenthorp.bsky.social urges transparency in the face of increasing outside pressure. “As difficult and scary as it is to talk to tough reporters and critics, the alternative can be far worse,” writes Thorp. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

A sober and much-needed piece from Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus. Science is in for a real reckoning and those who have been working tirelessly to improve, correct, and defend the integrity of this field—people like Adam and Ivan—understand the risks best. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Susie Wiles taking Jon Batiste’s seat on the Kennedy Center board is so funny to me. He has seven Grammy’s she has hair full of secrets allá Gretchen Weiners — it’s a perfect swap!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

With all the talk about slashing NIH indirects, I’m surprised more people aren’t discussing the last time this was huge scandal—when *Democrat* John Dingell went on a campaign in the ’90s to blast Stanford for exorbitant spending on the government’s dime. 1/3

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

With all the talk about slashing NIH indirects, I’m surprised more people aren’t discussing the last time this was huge scandal—when *Democrat* John Dingell went on a campaign in the ’90s to blast Stanford for exorbitant spending on the government’s dime. 1/3

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What a lede: “On Fri. morning, staffers at a half dozen US-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die. They chose the children.”

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Charles Piller in @nytopinion.nytimes.com reveals "a malaise within the field" of Alzheimer's research. His book "Doctored," to be published 2/4, details "a litany of ostensible fraud and other misconduct by world-famous researchers and obscure scientists alike." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

So excited for @tracyjan.bsky.social, one of the most exceptional editors I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. She is fearless, careful, and endlessly kind. Tracy volunteered to help guide my investigations into Stanford’s president for The Stanford Daily and I was so much better off for it.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

News - JAY BHATTACHARYA is now the presumptive favorite to lead the NIH, per three people familiar. Bhattacharya, who coauthored Great Barrington Declaration, met with RFK Jr this week and impressed him with ideas for nearly $50B agency. Trump still hasn’t signed off + nothing final until then.

submitted 91 days ago • 9 comments

Stanford’s Faculty Senate has voted 21-13 to uphold a 2020 censure of Scott Atlas, the influential Trump adviser and COVID firebrand known for telling people to “rise up” against public health measures. A subcommittee had argued Atlas was not afforded due process. news.stanford.edu/stories/2024...

submitted 92 days ago • 3 comments

Tidbit: Jay Bhattacharya, likely the next NIH director, organized a conference at Stanford this year described by LAT and others as a platform for COVID misinformation purveyors. He asked the president of Stanford, Jon Levin, to speak. Here’s what Levin told me:

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve migrated here from the other place… Follow for: - Tech journalism - Science (and especially scientific misconduct) journalism - Silicon Valley and Stanford insights

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments