Leonard Zwelling

Why Theranos Is My Favorite Story Since the Moonshot and IACS: The Power of Hype By Leonard Zwelling http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/business/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-ban.html?ref=business&_r=0 http://www.wsj.com/articles/when-startups-put-the-fab-in-fabricate-1468015329          I have been following this one for a while.          Theranos is a 2003 start-up company headed by a Stanford University drop-out named Elizabeth Holmes with a penchant for long blonde hair and black …

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Mens Rea, E-Mails, Hate Crimes and Parallels in Academic Medicine By Leonard Zwelling          I don’t believe in hate crimes. I believe that the criminal justice system ought to be built on actions not intent. You are tried and convicted for what the state can prove you did, not what they can prove was on …

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I Guess I’ll Go With The Teenager Over The Five Year Old By Leonard Zwelling http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/politics/fbi-director-doesnt-recommend-charges-against-hillary-clinton/index.html          The FBI gave her a D. Minus!          FBI Director Comey has declined to prosecute Hillary Clinton for the use of an unsecured government email system during her tenure as Secretary of State. It is clear that she …

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This Is World War III By Leonard Zwelling          San Bernardino, Orlando. Istanbul, Brussels, Paris, Dhaka, Saudi Arabia et al. It doesn’t seem like it will ever stop. Just Sunday over 150 people died in a blast in Baghdad. As I write this, explosions are reported to have hit several sites in Saudi Arabia. Many …

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If the Moonshot Concept Is Nonsense (And It Is), What Should We Do Instead? By Leonard Zwelling Richard Nixon launched the metaphor that would not die way back in 1971, declaring that “the same kind of concentrated effort … that took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease.” https://www.statnews.com/2016/01/15/cancer-moonshot-rhetoric/          OK, …

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Over Reach By Leonard Zwelling          At first blush, the decisions handed down by the Supreme Court today, June 27, couldn’t appear more different.          In one, the Court, by a 5 to 3 margin, overturned the Texas law that was purported to protect women’s health, but, in fact, restricted access to abortion and caused …

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“We Have No Choice” By Leonard Zwelling http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/trumps-response-to-orlando          In her piece about Donald Trump’s reaction to the Orlando nightclub shootings, Amy Davidson discusses the presumptive GOP nominee’s repeated use of this phrase to justify some outlandish proposal he is making. Whether it is the Wall between us and Mexico, the religious test for entry …

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Brexit, Trump, Bernie and the Sit-In By Leonard Zwelling          These are all symptoms.          What’s the disease?          One does not need to hold a clinical-pathologic conference to determine what ails the body politic in the United Kingdom and in the United States. It’s disgust.          Yesterday, June 22, the Democratic members of the …

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Is Trump Hitler? No. But the GOP Establishment Members Are His Enablers By Leonard Zwelling http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/11/politics/meg-whitman-donald-trump-hitler-mussolini-hewlett-packard/index.html          There is a lot of loose talk around Donald Trump. Of course, he is the master of loose talk, so perhaps this is no surprise. The most concerning meme is that Trump is really Hitler and will turn …

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The Bobble Heads By Leonard Zwelling          They are usually given away free at a baseball game.          These are the toy doll likenesses of famous players with their cartoon-like heads attached to the uniformed body of the doll by a spring so that the head bobs up and down. They are used to attract …

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