Does Anyone Else Besides Me Think These Guys Aren’t Smart? By Leonard Zwelling To me, the most amazing thing about the Trump phenomenon is the popularity of a man who seems not very bright. Forget for a moment the stupid things he says about women, Muslims and the Klan (if you can). How about […]
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When Division Heads Act Like GOP Presidential Hopefuls By Leonard Zwelling One of the things that struck me as unusual about Washington, DC and Capitol Hill in particular was the ability of sworn political enemies to become best friends forever in a heartbeat. Today we are throwing bombs across the aisle. Tomorrow we are
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Where Is MD Anderson’s Mitt? By Leonard Zwelling It was Thursday. March 3. I was driving to Austin on 71 to go to a speaking gig that evening. That was when I heard Mitt Romney give what was undoubtedly the best speech of his life. If you haven’t watched it or heard it or
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A Pleasant Morning at MD Anderson: My Patient Experience By Leonard Zwelling That’s right. I may have retired as a faculty member, but I am still a patient. I am fortunate in that I am not a cancer patient–yet, but after all, all of us Boomers are potential cancer patients in waiting. My
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The Man in the KKK T-Shirt and the Yellow Star By Leonard Zwelling http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/02/27/donald-trump-protester-kkk-shirt.cnn If you want to see what the country will be like should Donald Trump become President, look no further than this video clip from CNN. A young man showed up at a Trump rally standing near the podium wearing
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EXTRA: How? By Leonard Zwelling If the GOP debate on February 25 at the University of Houston taught us anything, it displayed the foolishness of Donald Trump. When he and Marco Rubio got into a punching match about health care reform, Marco kept asking about Donald’s “policies” to replace ObamaCare and Donald kept talking
Falsification, Fabrication and Plagiarism: Research Misconduct Right Here in Bayou City? (New Link on bottom re: MD Anderson) By Leonard Zwelling The journal Biochemical Pharmacology has retracted 7 papers by MD Anderson investigator Bart Aggarwal: http://retractionwatch.com/2016/02/22/journal-retracts-7-papers-by-md-anderson-researcher-long-under-investigation/ This story of allegations of research misconduct has been around for quite a while now and perhaps
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Magic Sells: Donald, Bernie and Ron (They Are Not Abraham, Martin and John) By Leonard Zwelling https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sanders-and-trump-magic-sells/2016/02/11/bc5e4df6-d0e8-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html In a particularly insightful op-ed in The Washington Post (sent to me by a blog reader, thank you), conservative paragon Charles Krauthammer makes the point that along with popularism, there is a certain strain of anti-Obamaism to BOTH The
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CPRIT: Who’s Accountable? By Leonard Zwelling About 20 years ago, a series of research grants were made available through the state of Texas and the competition for the money was fierce. I cannot even remember what the program was called, but we on the faculty called it the Texas State Lottery. It was never
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EXTRA: Where Can Bernie Win? Where Can The Donald Lose? Nevada, South Carolina and Beyond By Leonard Zwelling The results from Nevada were in early and Hillary Clinton significantly beat Bernie Sanders 52 to 48%. What this means is that in a fairly good-sized state of real diversity, Senator Sanders, despite his clear message
