The Swedish Control Arm By Leonard Zwelling In a real surprise, Sweden, of all places, is doing an experiment most countries would consider risky. Restaurants and schools are open. They have not taken the approach most of the world has taken to go to the extremes of social distancing. The question is whether social …
What I’m Trying To Say By Leonard Zwelling In the Wall Street Journal on April 8, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. makes some important points about the current mess the U.S. is in. And let’s be clear, that mess is not the coronavirus, but America’s response to it. And as a digression, let’s not …
Without Firing A Shot By Leonard Zwelling For many years, the United States prepared for nuclear war. Once the Russians acquired a nuclear device the arms race was on and mutually assured destruction of the type immortalized in Dr. Strangelove came into play. If the United States was vulnerable, if our way of life …
What’s Really Happening: What You Won’t See On The Evening News By Leonard Zwelling There is only one news story right now and it’s not the inexorable progress of the coronavirus to bring the United States to its knees. It’s the fact that most of the media is ignoring what really happened, because what …
Elective Cancer Surgery Is An Oxymoron By Leonard Zwelling In the March 31, 2020 edition of The Houston Chronicle, Marc Boom (CEO of Methodist) and Peter Pisters (president of MD Anderson) penned an op-ed about the roles that hospitals must take in the coronavirus crisis. It was a platitude-laden piece about traditional exercises in …
Fear, Dissonance, Wills, And Perspective By Leonard Zwelling We are in the middle of it right now, and despite what anyone out there says, we really don’t know when it ends or how. We don’t know what it means or what our response to it will mean for future generations. It will be one …
It’s Always About Choices By Leonard Zwelling There are only choices. Those choices have type one (alpha) or type two (beta) errors. The first is an erroneous rejection of the null hypothesis—accepting significance when none exists. A type two error occurs when the null hypothesis is erroneously retained—missing a significance that is present. When …
The Politics Of The Covid-19 Response: Trump Grows Stronger, So Does The Virus By Leonard Zwelling For all you anti-Trumpers (like me) out there, this op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on March 26 should be sobering. It should also be a wake-up call while you shake your heads (but not hands) in amazement …
There Will Be A Tomorrow. Research Must Be Part Of It. By Leonard Zwelling It is my understanding that a single individual in one of the MD Anderson South Campus research buildings has tested positive for the coronavirus. Without letting the people in that building know and certainly without giving ample warning to the …
“Crimson Contagion”: Contrary To What The President Has Said, This WAS Predicted By Leonard Zwelling The front-page story in The New York Times on March 20 describes the fact that some members of the executive branch of the federal government do have imaginations. They gamed out the threat of a new virus arising in …
