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Theo Baker

Theo Baker is the Vol. 263 Spotlight Investigations Editor. A frosh from Washington, D.C., he is the youngest ever recipient of a George Polk Award. Contact [email protected] for encrypted email. Find him on Twitter @tab_delete.
News
Stanford's president Marc Tessier Lavigne superimposed on a research article in the background.

Blockbuster Alzheimer’s paper retracted by former Stanford president after a decade of resistance

Theo Baker
  •  
Dec. 31, 2023
Science & Technology
A stack of research paper pages with red ink over data

Two Tessier-Lavigne papers retracted on his last day as president

Theo Baker
  •  
Sept. 1, 2023
News
Entrance to Stanford Law School

S.B.F. is leaving campus. But Stanford’s ties to his case are deeper than previously known

Theo Baker
  •  
Aug. 13, 2023
Science & Technology
Stanford's president walks next to a car

Sources refused to participate in Stanford investigation of president after they weren’t guaranteed anonymity

Theo Baker
  •  
July 19, 2023
University
Tessier-Lavigne walking in Stanford's main quad

Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers

Theo Baker
  •  
July 19, 2023
University
Persis Drell and Marc Tessier-Lavigne sitting together at a table.

Stanford ends year with leadership uncertainty

Theo Baker
  •  
June 15, 2023
Crime & Safety
Front of the Childrens Center of the Stanford Community

Teacher at Children’s Center of the Stanford Community arrested for murder

Theo Baker and Caroline Chen
  •  
April 28, 2023
Science & Technology
Stanford's president Marc Tessier Lavigne speaks to a sherif

Stanford president dodges research misconduct questions

Theo Baker
  •  
April 25, 2023
Campus Life
A couch with a blanket on it and a TV in the background

He pretended to be a student for a year. Last week, he came back

Theo Baker
  •  
April 11, 2023
Science & Technology
Marc Tessier-Lavigne speaking at a meeting

Genentech discloses unreported research misconduct in Stanford President’s lab, says it did not find ‘intentional wrongdoing’ in 2009 paper

Theo Baker
  •  
April 6, 2023
University
Faculty senators sit in their seats looking toward the center of the room

‘MTL knew’: Misconduct allegations independently corroborated in private correspondence to special committee

Theo Baker
  •  
March 6, 2023
University
Tessier-Lavigne walking in Stanford's main quad

Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s Alzheimer’s research, colleagues allege

Theo Baker
  •  
Feb. 17, 2023
Breaking
Stanford's president Marc Tessier Lavigne superimposed on a research article in the background.

Latest updates: Stanford president under investigation for research misconduct

Theo Baker and Kate Selig
  •  
Feb. 16, 2023
Music
Says "Staff Playlist" next to a red Spotify logo over the words "The Stanford Daily"

The Daily takes the aux: January 2023 music staff picks

Sofia Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Richard Coca, Nick Sligh, Theo Baker, Kelly Wang, Ximena Sanchez Martinez, Ananya Udaygiri and Blyss Cleveland
  •  
Feb. 1, 2023
University
Stanford’s Title IX office in Kingscote Gardens.

Title IX report lacks detail of previous years’ reports

Theo Baker
  •  
Jan. 27, 2023
News
Stanford Medical Center

Victim of Half Moon Bay mass shooting sent to Stanford Medical Center

Theo Baker and Carolyn Stein
  •  
Jan. 23, 2023
Science & Technology
A picture of the board of trustees.

Nobel Laureate and Harvard, Princeton leaders to investigate Tessier-Lavigne’s work

Theo Baker
  •  
Jan. 18, 2023
University
Stan Cohen works in a lab

Stanford issued a false statement about its role in $29M fraud case

Theo Baker
  •  
Jan. 2, 2023
Science & Technology
Professor Stan Cohen poses for a photo

Stanford professor pays $29M in fraud case

Theo Baker
  •  
Dec. 21, 2022
Science & Technology
Marc Tessier-Lavigne speaks at a faculty senate meeting

Three Tessier-Lavigne papers issued Editorial Expressions of Concern

Theo Baker
  •  
Dec. 15, 2022
The Stanford Daily

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