Len Zwelling

Why The Notorious RBG Was Correct About The Donald And Even More Correct To Say Something By Leonard Zwelling http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/opinion/donald-trump-is-right-about-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg.html?src=me&_r=0          Even the NY Times took the Associate Justice to task. There is widespread objection to the criticisms Ruth Bader Ginsburg heaped on the presumptive GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump, aka The Donald. (Sounds to […]

Simone On Leadership By Leonard Zwelling          One of my favorite people in all of academic oncology is Joseph V. Simone MD, former leader at St. Jude, MSKI and The University of Utah. Joe has retired to consulting now, but he is never short of wisdom. His Maxim’s have informed us all for years about

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

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

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

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

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,

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

“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

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