Category Archives: Social policy

Trust in Science, Public Health, and Politics: Lessons from COVID-19

Shortly after COVID-19 was recognized as a worldwide catastrophe, my much better half asked me how long I thought this would this last.  Based on my then 45 years of biomedical research experience I replied, “Three years.”  I was wrong.  That was more than five years ago, when the refrigerated makeshift morgues were parked on […]

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Coffee Break: Funding Medical Education, A Human Ancestor, Tardigrades to the Rescue, Trashing the Earth, Plus MAHA and Measles

Part the First: Financing Professional Education in the United States.  College costs too much in the United States.  Professional School costs way to much.  Up until the present – who knows what will happen next as the broad attacks on American universities continue – graduate education at the PhD level in traditional disciplines in the […]

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