Theo Baker Cracks Open Stanford’s Faustian Bargain With Silicon Valley
Theo Baker, a Stanford undergraduate, exposed research misconduct by the university's president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, leading to his resignation, and in his book How to Rule the World, he reveals how Stanford’s deep entanglement with Silicon Valley has fostered a culture of unchecked a
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