Jeffrey Flier
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Formerly Dean of HMS.
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Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy
In a recent article, Matt McManus drew a valuable distinction between postmodern culture and postmodern philosophy. Postmodern culture, he argued, was first theorized by neo-Marxists to refer to what they saw as a new phase of capitalism,...
A campus infected with hostility: A professor says he's been targeted for being a conservative Jew
Each time I walk into my office at Kingsborough Community College, I draw inspiration from a picture of my father, Leon Goldstein, the school’s president for 29 years and the man who built the college’s modern-day campus.
Regeneron STS 2019 Finalists
Society for Science & the Public and Regeneron named the 40 finalists in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the nation's oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school
In Boston Courtroom, Cancer Research Titans Clash Over Patents Likely Worth Billions
The battle over work that led to the Nobel Prize involves issues of scientific credit, honesty and reliability, one expert says, and "if you add money to the mix, it makes a particularly potent poison."
Jeffrey Flier
In Boston Courtroom, Cancer Research Titans Clash Over Patents Likely Worth Billions - I provide a few background comments | CommonHealth @WBUR
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Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld to explore running for president, he says - The Boston Globe
The former two-term governor of Massachusetts said Friday he is taking the formal step to become the first Republican to directly challenge President Trump in the 2020 GOP primary.
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Jeffrey Flier
Bill Weld to explore running for president, he says. bostonglobe.com/news/politics/… via @BostonGlobe
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Judge To Hear Last Round Of Arguments In Harvard Bias Suit
A federal judge is scheduled to hear a final round of arguments in a lawsuit that says Harvard University discriminates against Asian-Americans.
I'm an expert on diagnosing mental illness. Trump doesn’t meet the criteria
Many people speculate on Donald Trump's alleged mental disorder. But he doesn't meet the criteria for mental illness. He's crazy like a fox.
U.S. Socialism In 2019: 'Extending Democracy,' Or Something Else?
The S-word. We explore socialism's complicated history in the United States, and where it's at in 2019.
Conservatives Cave on the Wall, Declare Victory for Trump
Trump's wall dreams may have just died with the government funding bill—but many in the Republican Party are framing the shutdown showdown as a stroke of presidential brilliance.
Liberals and Conservatives are Both Susceptible to Fake News, But for Different Reasons
New research suggests that both liberals and conservatives are motivated to believe fake news, and dismiss real news that contradicts their ideology.
Systematic Fraud
Here's a personal experience with fraudulent scientific literature, as reported in Nature:
In 2015, I discovered several papers had been written about a gene that I and my colleagues first reported in 1998. All were by different authors based in...
Divided We Fall | NEJM
Medicine and Society from The New England Journal of Medicine — Divided We Fall
SPIEGEL Interview with Craig Venter: 'We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
In a SPIEGEL interview, genetic scientist Craig Venter discusses the 10 years he spent sequencing the human genome, why we have learned so little from it a decade on and the potential for mass production of artificial life forms that could be used...
Can Big Science Be Too Big?
A new study finds that small teams of researchers do more innovative work than large teams do.
Jeffrey Flier
Can Big Science Be Too Big? - interesting approach to answering this complex question. The New York Times
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Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96
A quixotic leader who began his political career on the far left and ended it on the far right, railing against a host of groups.
Democrats Need an Ambitious Climate Plan. The Green New Deal Isn’t It.
Why the much-hyped plan fails on policy and politics.
A Harvard Geneticist Wants To Sell A Magical Molecule To Reverse Aging. It Works. In Mice.
David Sinclair stirred up controversy before when he promoted — and got $8 million — off a “miraculous molecule.”
Shirley Leung: Who wants to be the next Partners CEO? Anyone? - The Boston Globe
The board shouldn’t stick with the Partners Way, which is plucking a doctor from one of its teaching hospitals.
Theranos whistleblowers filed complaints out of fear of patients' health: 'It started to eat me up inside': 'The Dropout' episode 4
This is episode 4 of "The Dropout," a podcast about the fall of Theranos.