It’s right there in their headline:
18-Year-Old’s Science Reporting Leads Stanford President to Quit
It takes a child to point out to the world that the emperor has no standards.
Everyone else – especially at places like Stanford, which make scientific entrepreneurs like Stanford’s president billionaires – plays the games, the insider trading, irreproducible results, conflict of interest, ghost writing, pharmawhore games.
And everyone’s making so much money playing the games that no one’s going to make a peep.
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So making noise about it takes some snot-nosed self-righteous little person at the student newspaper who thinks exposing corruption is more important than being able to stash billions away in your tax haven.
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July 23rd, 2023 at 1:19AM
Little in name only. Your own links betray you. This is not the poor child looking up at the emperor but a young patrician looking at an older one.
You may however enjoy this meddling kid medley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0PPfZIi6B8
July 23rd, 2023 at 6:23AM
Dmitry: Privileged the kid is; but he’s still at 18 only a kid. He was ignored, ridiculed, etc., just like an irritating nobody. He had to be tenacious. Scrappy. This doesn’t describe a patrician.
As for Stanford’s prez: He comes from humble roots, and has had to acquire his patrician airs through close observation.