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No index, difficult to track 177 names through the text, so here's a web-searchable list of pages with +[name] for each first occurrence, not including acknowledgements

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How to Rule The World

An Education in Power at Stanford University

• Theo Baker . 2026 . ( May 19 on Amazon )

• HUNDREDS of CITATIONS NEEDED

No index, difficult to track 177 names through the text, so here's a web-searchable list of pages with +[name] for each first occurence, not including acknowledgements

• parents +Susan Glasser of the New Yorker and +Peter Baker of the New York Times, not mentioned by name in the book

• p001 - Tresidder Memorial Union - food court

• p002 - +Justin - secret class for promising people
• p003 - comparison of summed public company values to GDPs (a 12 month sum) of countries

• p004 - +Bob Martin - software pioneer

• p004 - +Peter Thiel Palantir founder

• p004 - +Alex Karp - Palantir current CEO

• p004 - +Ilya Sutskever - Safe Superintelligence founder

• p005 - ... - Thinking Machines startup

• p006 - +Marc Tessier-Lavigne - MTL - Stanford President, former biotech executive, renowned neuroscientist

  • searching for cause of Alzheimer's

• p007 - the Farm - +Leland Stanford's horse farm

• p007 - +John Hennessy - Stanford President 2000 to 2016

• p008 - +William Shockley - Stanford Research Park

• p008 - 150 companies in Park: Tesla, Google, Lyft

• p008 - Sand Hill Road

• p008 - Stanford's own VC fund
• p009 - Google from grad student's garage (?)

• p009 - Stanford adjacent: Instagram, DoorDash, 40,000 active companies

  • Anthropic, Capital One, Cisco, Electronic Arts, Expedia, LinkedIn, Netflix, Nike, OpenAI, Yahoo!, Zilloq

  • not expect: Bain&Company, Charles Schwab, Trader Joe's, TSMC(??), Victoria's Secret

• p009 - Nvidia founder +Jensen Huang: "dawn till dusk, 7 d/wk, 52 wk/y

• p009 - +Chamath Palihapitiya, 150 men rule the world, politicians all puppets

• p010 - +Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1922? Stanford president, First Million club

• p012 - +Scott Turow One L book about first year at Harvard Law School

• p015 - ch. 1 - Drafted to the War on Fun

• p016 - Makeshift boats for Lake Lagunita, motorized couches to get to class
• p016 - Wacky Walk, dress up as catholic Cardinals
• p017 - Campus 8180 acres, 8000 undergraduates

• p017 - Hewlett and Packad, 1938 garage, $538 -> $12170 2026 dollars

• p017 - Alondra the nerd dorm

• p018 - everyone lives on campus

• p018 - Synergy nudist dorm, Enchanted Broccolo Forest marijuana dorm, Terra judgy gay dorm

• p018 - SLE Structured Liberal Education One great book per week freshman year

• p019 - Eurotrash, first party of the year at Kappa Sigma, cancelled by university

• p020 - Party Review Committee, 6 departments, titles SUPER, OSE, SUDPS, RedEd, SUFMO, and FSL

• p020 - Harm Reduction Plan
• p021 - Stanford motto "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." Let the winds of freedom blow
• p022 - Officially, no noise more than 55dB after 10pm ... "average conversation is 70db" (refrigerator is 55dB?)
  • inaccurate ... normal conversation 60 dB. Sleep is disrupted at 40 dB. Sleep in a dorm is essential, public conversation Debian User Forums after 10pm is disruptive and superfluous. A decent wall should reduce quiet conversation below audibility in a neighboring room
• p022 - Stanford Social Life Accelerator Task Force
• p022 - "all fun had disappeared". Try learning instead. Some of us still have fun learning 50 years after university.

• p022 - grandfather +Steve Glasser (legal educator) sounds like this Stephen Glasser p295 - Coda

• p023 - voracious reader

• p025 - +R.B. Brenner The Daily's advisory board

• p025 - Coupa Cafe main meeting place on campus - which one of six?

• p028 - +Mary, former The Daily editor-in-chief

• p028 - +Lucy "US National Team athlete"
• p028 - Sigma Nu fraternity president +Moritz Stephan

• p030 - +John Doerr Doerr School of Sustainability

• p031 - +John Hennessy

• p032 - Sigma Phi Epsilon SigEp

• p033 - +Sam Catania editor of Stanford Daily

• p035 - ch. 2 - The Impostor

• p035 - + Logan - wealth-obsessed junior, also from DC like Theo Baker, $750K Ferrari, "FALIURE" license plate

• p035 - Stanford Marriage Pact algorithmicly match students using survey responses (p50)

• p037 - congressional Republicans "120%? more semantically similar" to QAnon

• p037 - OpenAI's seminal 72 page Codex paper in 2021 (age 16 )

• p038 - 10X engineer

• p038 - +Lily Zhou 1 year younger

• p039 - +16yo Software genius Nick, important published paper when high school sophomore

• p039 - Stanford Internet Observatory

• p040 - CS109 Weeder class

• p040 - Stanford admission rate 3.6%

• p041 - Stanford > $95K / year

• p043 - +bae sweetheart, baby

• p043 - +William Curry living in Harvard Dorm, imposter from Alabama

• p044 - +Alisha freshman
• p044 - +Graham resident suspicious of Curry, same high school
• p045 - +Cassidy another news writer

• p045 - +Steve Jobs also "pre-habited" dorms at Reed before matriculation

• p050 - majority of Marriage Pact Stanford CS students would rather cheat than fail

• p051 - Fizz discussion and news feed platform

• p053 - ch. 3 - Coupa Circuit

• p053 - TreeHacks

• p055 - +Sara ? started and ran half a dozen hackathons. projected hyper-competence
• p055 - +Vedant? p67 p68 p81 p170 p274
• p058 - +Ivan? yo "coupa circuit fixer"
• p059 - Sequoia, Lightspeed, Pear, CRV, Founders Fund, Accel, Social Capital, Spark Capital

• p060 - D1 Sports

• p063 - +Julian

• p063 - Lake Laguinita Yacht Club (no longer filled with scarce water)

• p065 - BASES Business Association of Stanford Entreprenuerial Students

• p066 - Plucked ... Stanford students found early and groomed for wealth creation
• p066 - Friends and Family ... a Builders Society hosting hackathons and dispensing $10K mocro-grants

• p066 - Pear Garage

• p066 - Floodgate Reactor

• p066 - Interact Fellowship

• p066 - ME410 Introductory Foresight and Technological Innovation

• p066 - Mayfield Fellows Program

• p066 - How to Rule The World - Justin's secret class
• p067 - Treehacks at mansion in the hills
• p068 - +Parth at Treehacks
• p068 - +Jackson founder from Nebraska at Treehacks
• p069 - FOTH - Friend of the House
• p069 - +senior named George
• p070 - +Riya sapling at Treehacks
• p070 - Bruh: brother
• p071 - +Jessica sapling at Treehacks
• p073 - +Jacob recent Stanford graduate, fan of War on Fun article

• p073 - ch. 4 - Binary Bomb

• p073 - PubPeer

• p075 - +Karsten, encountered years earlier, warned about MTL

• p076 - Therac-25

• p076 - +Jerry Cain

• p077 - +SBF Sam-Bankman-Fried

• p077 - Alameda Research

• p078 - +Rob Reich

• p078 - Effective Altruism

• p080 - +Elizabeth Holmes

• p080 - +Tim Draper

• p080 - Stanford - The Game

• p080 - +Do Kwon created cryptocurrencies Luna and TerraUSD

• p080 - +Bowen and +Monsees

• p081 - Juul

• p083 - +Elizabeth Bik Biology's Image Detective

• p084 type 1: identical duplications . type 2: shifted or rotated . type 3 duplication of sections, most likely intentional alteration
• p085 - "level of alteration that suggests an intent to mislead"

• p086 - retracted 2001 MTL article in Science

• p087 - +MTL netrins

• p087 - MTL UCSF, 2 years at Stanford, Genentech, 2011 President Rockefeller University 2016 President Stanford

• p087 - PubPeer, post publication peer review

• p088 - Bik: nearly 4% of published studies include problematic figures

• p088 - PubPeer and Retraction Watch blog

• pFelix Baker089 - CS107 Binary Bomb

• p090-91 Lily

• p091 - friend +Sergio, +Randy Schekman, +Hollis Cline

• p094 - +Davis Wright Tremaine top First Amendment law firm on the West Coast

• p094 - +R.B. Brenner

• p094 - +Tracy Jan at Washington Post

• p095 - +Michele graphics editor of Stanford Daily

• p095 - +Dee Mostofi Stanford spokesperson

• p097 - +Eric Stahl, a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine

• p099 - ch. 5 - A Fucking Menace

• p099 - "If I woke tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now."
  • "from a Brit" ... actually +Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) in "Christmas Vacation" 1989

• p101 - Slack Channel

• p101 - Slack channel called "slay" for Stanford daily editors
• p102 - Stanford board of 33 trustees, no nonprofit leaders or other academics, mostly prominent business people

• p102 - +José E. Feliciano Puerto Rican businessman and investor

• p103 - +Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp email, said Tessier-Lavigne contacted Science in 2015 (4 years before Thorp) requesting corrections, Science erred and did not issue corrections

• p103 - Theo Baker's rhetorical question "how could they have failed to publish corrections?"
  • Science Magazine prints about a million words a year, far more offline, AAAS also prints five other journals
  • Science Magazine fails to publish 99.999% (WAG) of all that is printed in the world.

  • Theo Baker's constructive response could be a "Letter to the Editor", not petulant, impatient demands of the editor-in-chief

• p104 - "a scientist in Meyer Tessier-Lavigne's field" mentioned concerns about some of these papers in the early 2000's

• p105 - Special Committee of the Board +Jerry Yang, +Carol Lam, +Jeffrey Stone,+Jim Coulter, and +Felix Baker

• p105 - +Nancy Olivieri well known whistleblower

• p105 only Felix Baker was scientist, PhD immunology from Stanford, avoids the press

• p106 - Felix Baker invested in Denali Therapeutics, cofounded by Tessier-Lavigne in 2015, conflict of interest

• p106 - +Aidan Ryan crisis communication executive at powerful Edelman public relations firm

• p107 - +Richard Smith former editor in chief of BMJ - British Medical Association Journal

• p108 - +David Chassin at SLAC

• p108 - review by Kirkland & Ellis, largest revenue law firm in the world

• p108 - +Mark Filip chosen by Stanford

  • clerk for Supreme Court Justice +Antonin Scalia

• p109 - Filip represented BP in Deepwater Horizon 2010 spill, and other huge corporate scandal

• p??? - +Captain Kohei Asoh JAL flight that landed feet 150 short of the SFO runway into the bay

• p110 - Tessier-Lavinge stanford.edu website

• p110 - +Susan McConnell and husband +Richard Scheller close friends of Tessier-Lavinge and wife +Mary Hynes

• p111 -202? Science and Cell Editorial Expressions of Concern

• p111 - Theo did not attempt heap allocator, B- for CS107 course

• p112 - $29.2M civil fraud suit payment by Stanford professor + Stan Cohen

• p112 - invented recombinant DNA technology with Herb Boyer, who co-founded Genentech

• p112 - Richard Scheller (p110)

• p112 - Stanford earned hundreds of millions of dollars from 1980s Boyer-Cohen patents

• p113 - 62% of Stanford's total patent income

• p113 - In 2016 Cohen claimed cure for Huntington's disease

  • p113 - HD106 compound "approved in the 1970s for treating a different condition

• p113 - Novartis paid $3B in 2024 for PTC518

• p113 - Cohen claimed older compound HD106 compound treated for Huntington disease

  • treatment for Psoriasis in 1970s?
• p114 - FDA withdrew approval in 1976 after HD106 caused loss of limbs and death

• p114 - Cohen defrauded Alafi friends, and cheated on wife, hired girlfriend CITATION NEEDED

• p115 - Alafis won fraud lawsuit against Cohen, $29M paid 2022 December
• p115 - Stanford communications claimed no knowledge of lawsuit, legal very involved
• p116 - no punishment or condemnation for Cohen
• p116 - Cohen's lawyers send threat letter to author Theo and Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania
• p117 - Christmas gift from parents: "Theo Baker is a fucking menace!" T-shirt

• p119 - ch. 6 - Rule

• p119 - +Derek "an adult version of +Ivan" ???

• p119 - Unicorn Founder of startup that reaches $1B valuation, only 0.5% do so

  • footnote: 17% of all unicorns founded by Stanford alumni or faculty

• p120 - The Rosewood ≥$40K/night, "the modern clubhouse for Silicon Valley" on Sand Hill Road ... "a bunch of boring strip-mall offices near Stanford

• p121 - "business facing" - tech services for Muammar el-Qaddafi

• p122 - +Justin: no spot for Theo in cohort for quarter
• p122 VCs fund 1% of companies reviewed, higher ratio for Stanford students

• p123 - SAFE Simple agreement for future equity, pre-seed funding for the right to buy

• p123 - pre-idea funding

• p124 - Hacker Houses

• p124 - student Builders

• p125 - +Ann Miura-Ko +Twitch cofounder

• p126 - Amber Yang The Space Junk Apocalypse seertracking.com ... defunct?

• p127 Amber helped found weekly No Filter Club

• p127 - +Noor Siddiqui NYT interview Orchid

• p128 - +Jessie: meets +Mischa
• p128 - +Justin first startup space-focused, angered VC funder
• P128 - How To Rule The World class called "Rule", 12 participants
  • Justin 129 130 131 132 133 134
  • Janet 130 131 133 134 135 136

• p131 - +Phoebe Gates Phia shopping assistant

• p131 - +Janet, +Arjun
• p132 - Justin, +Billy, +Boris, Arjun

• p132 - +Paul Graham

• p132 - Italian company Luxottica controls eyewear industry (11 companies listed) LensCrafters brands

  • list does not include my current TurboFlex glasses frames linkedin Mont-Royal, Quebec

• p133 - Justin's classes focused on extracting value from others
• p134 - Justin "hit on" female pupils
• p135 - "Builder" Janet cheats on CS assignment, also estranged from East Coast family

• p136 - +Stanford Steve Blank Lean Launch Pad wikipedia

• p137 - Blank: 100% of entrepreneurs think they are visionaries, data say 99% aren't.
• p137 - Hennessy: most successful startups by grad students, not undergraduates

• p137 - +Elizabeth Holmes sophomore dropout for Theranos

• p138 Most VCs suck. 2% of VC firms generate 95% of industry's returns, average VC does not outperform average stock.
• p138 stampede is AI, was crypto before that, was virtual reality before that
• p138 Money focused on mythologized young founders

• p139 +Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford 2005, president Y Combinator, CEO OpenAI

• p139 Some parts of Stanford committed to progress, advancement, and ethics. Others expressed best motivations but actually behaved badly.

• p141 - ch. 7 - Duck Syndrome

• p141 - "Turkey Drop:" relationships ending around Thanksgiving
• p141-2 Theo's failed relationship with +Lily Zhou

• p142 COVID still a thing in January 2023. 3400 deaths per week in the US, extrapolated from wikipedia graph

• p143 - Situationships

• p143 - Lily
• p143 - Relationships among people my age at an all time low

• p144 - Washington Post +Philip Graham (reporting is) the first rough draft of history

• p144 - Stan Cohen Stanford professor fraud suit p112
• p146 - +Frank, friend from high school flying in to spend 18th birthday weekend

• p147 - death of +Blake Hounshell, depression, suicide

  • mother's professional friend, helped revive Foreign Policy magazine

• p148 - small, abused by other school children
• p149 - Blake jumped off bridge "barely three blocks away" ... from parent's home?
• p150 - 30% of high school students experience depression, 20% contemplate suicide, 10% attempt it
• p151 - 10 to 24yo suicides increased 62% between 2007 and 2021, leading cause of preventable death

• p151 - Duck Syndrome gliding across surface, paddling desperately below

• p151 - +Katie Meyer

• p152 - +Frank, best friend from home

• p153 - Theo Baker surprise birthday party at the Daily House

• p155 - ch. 8 - Harriet the Spy

• p155 - MTL: " ... you can spot a Canadian on a crowded street ... the person who's saying please and thank you to the ATM machine."
• p156 MTL capable of immense rage, p157 singular ambition

• p157 - netrin guides axon growth, 1994

• p159 - gift authorship

• p160 - MTL provided reagents to other projects and authors, added as co-author for their paper

• p161 - Review scientists +Shirley Tilghman +Steve Hyman +Randy Schekman +Hollis Cline +Kafui Dzirasa

• p162 - investigation of Stanford head football coach +Troy Taylor investigated twice, ESPN investigated and was sued by Taylor

• p162 - parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, former dean of freshman and coercive sexual relationship with student

• p163 - +Stanford cofounder Jane Stanford poisoned 1905, husband buried truth

• p164 - MTL collaborator +Cori Bargmann

• p165 - MTL collaborator +Corey Goodman shared Gruber Prize

• p165 - author says MTL took a reagent from Goodman's lab and published before them
• p165 first "falsified panels" paper in Cell 1999, two others in Science 2001

• p165 - Richard Scheller (p110) Stanford 1982 to 2001, then Genentech

• p165 - twenty years later, some colleagues said MTL had been nakedly careerist CITATION NEEDED

• p166 - SLE Structured Liberal Education

• p167 - +arancini stuffed fried breaded riceballs

• p167 - dinner-mates say Sam Bankman-Fried directionally correct, "how do I get around this?"
• p168 - "spilled AI tea"??? "dishing" sharing gossip

• p168 - freshman with half-baked idea wanted NDA before discussing it with Rob Reich

• p169 - idea secrecy paired with admissions of wrongdoing

• p169 - "menage a trois" sandwiches

• p169 - used Treehacks office after hours to serve corporate sponsors that The Stanford Daily would normally investigate
• p170 - going to Genentech interview, Theo sees MTL coming the other way
• p170 - walked out hours in a different universe. jackpot???
  • with dates and days missing, it is difficult to track author's timeline. Jackpot when and how?

• p173 - ch. 9 - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION

• p173 - 2009, MTL claims Alzheimer's was not amyloid beta, but N-APP fragment of APP binding to DR6 (tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 21, TNRFS21)

• p174 - RETRACTED ARTICLE: APP binds DR6 to trigger axon pruning and neuron death via distinct caspases

• p175 - Big news splash, Genentech patents, fail to reproduce, fabricated data
• p175 - MTL deliberately hid paper's manipulations
• p176 - Genentech internal inquiry: not reproducable, "faked" using "made up" figures
• p177 - MTL wouldn't retract, walked back claims in two lower-readership journals

• p177 - +Anatoly Nikolaev

• p177 - Promotions for Nikolaev, MTL to Chief Scientific Officer
• p178 - Nikolaev left biotech, retrained at Michigan community college, Florida radiation oncologist

• p179 - Genentech hired misconduct expert David Vaux

• p179 - four senior Genentech people independently told the same story
• p180 - Most sources offered deeply anguished views of MTK
• p181 - MTL never retracted, continued to cite paper

• p181 - MTL joined Regeneron board, highest paid in the S&P 500, earned $80M

• p181 - MTL cofounded Denali Theraputics in 2017, largest biotech IPO of the year

• p181 - MTL current net worth $500M

• p182 - Theo shares writup with Washington Post science editor +Tracy Jan and +Glenn Kramon

• p183 - Journalism advice: "Kill your darlings" - remove superfluous detail, even if brilliantly written
• p184 - argues with Stanford Daily editor Sam Catania (p033)

• p184 - Journalism lecturer +R. B. Brenner

• p185 - DJing Disc jockey-ing (as a verb)

• p185 - Daily staffer +Marie

• p185 - Alondra Dorm mate +Sylvia

• p185 - +Muwekma Ohlone bay area tribe

• p186 - Sylvia and drunk friend +Darren
• p186 - single sexiest college sentence: "I don't have a roommate"
• p187 - Sergio again (p91) brilliant older friend and SLE resident tutor

• p188 - Sam (Catania) editing Daily article

• p189 - Daily board chair +Andrew Bridges attorney at Fenwick & West

• p189 - +Ambika Kumar and +Eric Stahl at Davis Wright Tremaine

• p190 - HFO / hold-for-order articles, prewrites

• p190 - +Niko photographer

• p191 - MTL's Volkswagen electric ID.4

• p192 - Stanford Building 10 president's office

• p194 - +Persis Drell provost

• p196 - letter from attorney representing MTL

• p197 - ch. 10 - The Good Paper

• p197 - +Charles Keating Jr. swimmer / financier / felon / S&L crisis / $4.3B civil judgement

• p198 - Lawyer +Steve Neal reversed Keating convictions

• p199 - Cooley law firm represented Theranos +Elizabeth Holmes, now MTL

• p199 - Threatening letter to Theo
• p201 - 2009 N-APP paper described as incorrect in 2014 by MTL

• p203 - +Matthew Schrag Vanderbilt professor uncovered rampant fraud about a different Alzheimer's study

• p204 - Schrag discovered that his mentor +Othman Ghrigbi had manipulated data

• p204 - Schrag offers to mentor Theo
• p204 - the panel had been 100% confident that [the issues] weren't innocent

• p205 - Theo missing classes, Stanford resident director +Kenneth Graham concerned

• p207 - MTL "Let me underscore this: the data were reproducible", referencing papers that did not replicate MTL's 2009 N-APP-DR6 binding claim

• p207 - +Ryan Watts MTL's "Denali" cofounder

• p207 - reference to a Biogen paper published by "Nature Medicine' - cannot find citation
• p208 - in second interview, Nikolaev claims 2009 paper doesn't mention Alzheimer's, actually 31 times including abstract
• p208 - four Genentech senior members whose recollections matched

• p208 - +Phil Taubman NYT correspondent, wife +Felicity Barringer Stanford Daily editors in the 1970s

• p210 - +Fritz Bittenbender Genentech VP public affairs

  • asked for documents to help with due diligence

• p211 - +John Darnton calls, 2022 Polk Award for Theo, youngest winner ever

• p213 - +Cameron Duran professional layout man at Stanford Daily

• p214 - Sam to printers: "let's spring for the good paper"

• p215 - ch. 11 - TreeHacks

• p216 - Bill Grueskin Columbia professor and former senior editor at the Wall Street Journal

• p216 - "Every paragraph is a grenade, except for the ones that are 1000 pound bombs"
• p218 - replica Hewlett Packard shed inside Huang Center
• p219 - MTL letter did not mention that his own colleagues made the allegations in the paper

• p221 - Bobby Fuller Four 1965 Let Her Dance

• p221 to p224 Stanford treehacks

• p225 - four hours of sleep in 64 hours, collapse and temporary amnesia

• p227 - Andrej Karpathy

• p227 - Ali Partovi code.org

• p229 - ch. 12 - Solve for People

• p230 - +Jeremy Freese data science?? professor? WP says sociologist

• p231 - professors would hang up after their group calls and call Theo with details

• p232 - corroborating email to Stanford board chair +Jerry Yang

• p234 - Jägermeister German spiced digestif liqueur

• p235 - +Ed Tufte

• p235 - + Philip, Chicago attorney

• p236 - Science Holden Thorp called regularly

• p236 - +Kenneth Shultz, chair of the Stanford faculty senate

• p237 - "Secret society founded by a famous billionaire"; Peter Thiel's Dialog?? https://dialog.org/

• p240 - Letters with questions to MTL only mis-answered by lawyer Neal

• p241 - incorrect email from radiology professor +Garry Gold

• p242 - Email from MTL friend Richard Scheller, from anger "I do not recall"

• p243 - ch. 13 - Free to Speak

• p243 - spring, floaties in fountains

• p244 - faculty senate meeting including +Condoleezza Rice to remove +Rupert Murdoch and +Rebekah Mercer from board of Hoover Institution

• p245 - Academic Senate Chair +Ken Schultz

• p245 - professor +Joe Lipsick "I will ask the student newspaper to publish the entire conversation"

• p245 - Hoover Fellow +Henry Kissinger "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small"

• p247 - During COVID, MTL voted to censure Trump advisor and Hoover Fellow +Scott Atlas

• p248 - +David Cheriton computer science prof with $20B stake in many student companies

• p249 - +Lucas Duplan

• p249 - +Mehran Sahami

• p249 - +Jim Breyer

• p249 - +Richard Branson

• p249 - +Ken Auletta

• p250 - MTL "look of pure hatred", told that MTL could be intimidating

• p251 - Genentech pursuing a $46B acquisition deal by Roche

• p251 - in 2009, Genentech pursuing 12 year legal monopoly for ?

• p251 - Genentech 2009 emergency FDA authorization of Avstatin to treat metastatic breast cancer, subsequent research showed it ineffective

• p251 - NYT found nearly identical statements from 42 congressmen lobbying the FDA for Genentech
• p252 - ineffective for "countless breast cancer patients", delayed authorization revocation until 2011
• p253 - Richard Scheller (p110)
• p253 - gRED: Genentech Research and Early Development division, director also urged 2009 paper retraction
• p254 - Genentech statement: "Prior to publication of the paper, employees other than the author performed binding experiments that showed inconsistent results", contrary to subseqent statements by MTL
• p255 - Nature formal expression of concern

• p257 - ch. 14 - No Room for Error

• p257 - Theo's other grandfather Eleftherios Peter Baker (Pappouzi) +dies 2023

• p258 - Polk Awards Ceremony ... 17? categories

• p258 - +Lynsey Addario photojournalist also Polk Award recipient

• p259 - +Ben Pauker colleague of Theo Baker's mother

• p260 - Theo finds oxycodone left by his grandfather, "popped a few pills", wave of crashing warmth, takes bottle with him to school (KL: against the law and common sense)

• p261 - Theo frets, insecure, takes more oxycodone, overdose

• p261 - Theo slurs, heart slows down, uses "gift" Narcan in dorm room, alone

• p262 - mute and paralyzed
• p263 - threw up for hours, shaking, finally slept
• p263 - dumpstered the pills in the morning (toilet not good enough?), later told a doctor what happened

• p265 - ch. 15 - Money Is a Rush

• p265 - Stanford provost Persis Drell resigns, MTL not allowed by board to choose successor

• p266 - Condi Rice former Stanford provost, as was +Frederick Terman

• p269 - Hummingbird VC

• p270 - +"Lyle who served as class president for his year" Citation Needed
• p271 - Stanford Highly Incompetent Team S.H.I.T. building race car, "A balloon would be above our budget"

• p271 - 24 Hours of LeMons

• p271 - +Nathan, +Helen, +Mick

• p272 - +Cole, crazy claims, all true. 1800 Elo chess rating

• p273 - +Anya "A yacht party is, like, a central Stanford experience"

• p274 - TreeHacks swag

• p274 - TreeHacks teammate +John (not Darnton?)

• p275 - !Chris CS homework signing "Declaration: I did not use ChatGPT", with ChatGPT open in a split window

• p279 - ch. 16 - Finis Origine Pendet

• p279 - world famous researcher, off record: ... fraud by first author

• p280 - Russian dissident +Alexei Navalny's exiled investigators tracking oligarchs evading sanctions.

• p281 - +Jeffrey Flier lack of witness confidentiality "extremely unusual"

• p283 - 95 page report on secure website, only screenshots, no download
• p285 - several papers based on manipulated data, but MTL seemingly absolved by cover letter
• p285 - MTL said he had not been able to provide adequate explanation for failure to correct the scientific record
• p286 - panel recommended all five papers be retracted or substantially corrected, MTL retracted 3 and corrected 2
• p286 - panel concluded three papers falsified
• p288 - Theo finishes writing, gets two messages from national publications about MTL resigning

• p289 - +Richard Saller becomes interim president

• p290 - actual board decision a month prior to announcement
• p291 - there was no pro-MTL camp at the endGene Sykes
• p291 - the panel had not bought any of MTL's excuses
• p293 - MTL demanded 6 month continued use of presidential mansion; received 7-figure payout
• p294 - Stanford is supposed to look perfect

• p295 - Coda

• p295 sophomore year, Theo interviews interim president Saller.
• p296 also replaced provost, dean of research, head of undergraduate education, and head of student affairs

• p296 co-chair +Gene Sykes

• p297 end of "fake-it-till-you-make-it" and War on Fun

• p298 - +Fei-Fei Li and +Christopher Manning left for private sector

• p300 - across scientific publishing, four studies are retracted for every ten thousand published

• p300 - Holden Thorp at Science announced that journals would use forensic tools to detect manipulation

• p301 - New MTL company Xiara

• p302 - Theo offered funding if he wanted to start a company.

• p303 - Acknowledgements

• hundreds more names

• p309 - NOTES