The news out of the
University of Wisconsin
River Falls is all about
the Oreo Cows.
The Hudson Star-Observer
dutifully interviews Professor
Gary Onan (with
whom you can study Swine
Production) on the grass
versus cornfed experiment
he’s conducting with them,
but you and I know that
these cows are really
about just being incredibly
beautiful.
Who cares whether
they develop high
marbling in the muscle.
Who cares whether
they like feed more
than grass. These
cows exist to be
adored.
UD likes macho men.
She can’t help it. She was socialized into it by a sexist society and now it’s too late. Hope perhaps lies in future generations.
When pertinent, UD likes to point out on this blog instances of her attraction to academic rogues, rascals, rakes and randies, pre-impotence Hemingways swaggering the quad…
Today she likes the Harvard professor featured in this Crimson story, a med school guy going after Grassley and the other “quasi-religious” pharmascolds who worry about conflict of interest.
He argues that “physicians should be free to determine on their own if [an industry] gift is a bribe.”
How exactly would this work?
“This gift is a bribe. Great. I can use the money.”
No, no. And here’s where UD begins to pant a bit. “If people do bad things,” says her man, “shoot them.”
I also like how he describes the current turmoil over the issue: “Now there’s some skin in the game.” Meaning now doctors are getting pissed because the rules are changing and they’re losing money. Life’s a rugby match, baby, and Grassley’s pissing off the other side and he better look out!
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One editorial thing. The Crimson reporter notes that many other medical faculty believe “academic medicine has long suffered from ethical breeches.”
I think this would be trousers made with no leather products.
… it’s also at the heart of protecting yourself from Ponzi schemes.
SOS talks about it all the time.
What is it?
The control of your emotions.
One person who worked with Markopolos on a risk-management committee in the early part of this decade said he was not surprised that he remained focused on Madoff for so long.
“His background is one of risk management and mathematics,” said Mark Williams, professor of finance and economics at Boston University. “It’s about when you see an error, correcting it. … Madoff was breaking the normal equation…. From a pure academic standpoint, Harry was trying to break that and prove that something is wrong here.”
Markopolos. You know.
Many people were fooled, but not Harry Markopolos, the 52-year-old former financial executive who [has] been onto Madoff since 1996.