May 2019

Sadist Or Masochist? Mrs. Pelosi—Pick! By Leonard Zwelling There’s an old joke that goes something like this. The sadist says “Hit me!” The masochist says, “No!” That’s the choice that Nancy Pelosi is dealing with now. It is quite clear that this is the case now from the president’s display of pique at the recent […]

Two Chinese Scientists At Emory Dismissed By Leonard Zwelling It is no longer MD Anderson alone that has terminated the employment of faculty members with connections to China. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/terminated-emory-researcher-disputes-university-s-allegations https://finance.yahoo.com/news/professors-fired-from-emory-university-for-hiding-grants-from-china-215407630.html In this May 24 article on Science Magazine’s web site, it is reported by Jon Cohen that Li Xiao-Jiang and his wife and laboratory co-director

Why The Abortion Debate Is So Intractable By Leonard Zwelling If there is one issue on which everyone has an opinion, it is abortion. And there’s a good reason for that. First, the debate on the legality of abortion is filled with emotion. People FEEL really strongly no matter which side they are on intellectually.

No One Wants To Be A Ref Any More And Why Should They? By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-lewis-makes-boring-stuff-interesting-11558098125?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=3 I am finishing up the seven-part Podcast hosted by author Michael Lewis called Against The Rules. It discusses in a number of areas the decline of the relationship between the refs and those reffed. There is far more

Pain And The Jewish All-Stars By Leonard Zwelling I remember not so long ago when the word about the Houston Astros was that you could make an all-star team out of their ex-players, mostly erroneously traded away. This is obviously no longer the case. In fact, the players from other teams are now helping the

Regression Revisited By Leonard Zwelling http://lenzwelling.blogspot.com/2015/02/regression-to-mean-in-oz.html In February of 2015, I wrote this blog about regression to the mean. This is the statistical phenomenon that describes what happens when you test a large number of people for a trait and get a mean, standard deviation and Gaussian distribution. IQ is a good example. But if

Order By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-missing-order-in-american-politics-11557443675 In foreign policy, there is an order to things. You have to decide what the future should look like and then how to get there. During a training session on internal communications, the specialist training the president of MD Anderson, his wife and me that Saturday many years ago conveyed

Could It Be Done Through The ACA?-A Different Route To Universal Coverage By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1901532 In The New England Journal of Medicine on May 2, Fiedler et al outline a new plan to cover the 9% of the population that is still without health insurance after the ACA was fully implemented. This article is

I’m Losing Blog Readers, But That’s OK By Leonard Zwelling On Sunday May 5, Maureen Dowd published this column about the difference between fair and fair. Huh? No wonder you’re losing readers, Len. What she means is that sometimes, people in positions of great power wield that power ineffectively by leaning over backwards trying to

For A Good DQ, Everyone Has To Know The Rules By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-vs-the-horses-derby-debate-goes-presidential-11557143530 If you watched the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 4, you were treated to a once in a century event. The horse that finished first did not win. Maximum Security, a 4 to 1 shot at post time, was the clear