I Led Harvard Medical School, And I Fear What's to Come. My oped in today's New York Times. nytimes.com/2025/04/04/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Honored to deliver a lecture this Monday at 4pm at @YaleMed - "Open Inquiry in Higher Ed and Medicine: Challenges and Remedies" Sponsored by Office of the Dean and Office of Collaborative Excellence. @cafharvard @HdxAcademy @harvardmed

John McCutcheon is a great singer-songwriter- multi instrument musician, and his concert tonite in Hartford Conn was amazing. Many songs brought tears to my eyes, others provoked deep thought. A remarkable talent.

“In humanities dissertations, the share of words tied to identity politics and social theory grew tenfold from 1960 to 2025, with a sharp acceleration after 2019. That includes terms such as decolonization, oppression, queer, whiteness, gender, systemic racism & social justice.”

Not in my house!!!

This is an abominable tweet. She is *criticizing* these decent men and women for coming together to repel the marauders and protect their city’s shops. But these are exactly the kinds of citizens healthy societies cannot function without.

Bribery of editors to facilitate publication in Cell Press journals? They better get to the bottom of this fast. Trust in science has enough problems without this. @RetractionWatch

A very strong piece on happenings in France @TheFP by @srodan

Incredible that this 5 year nightmare is over. Institutions should admit that they made mistake because, as the jury concluded, they were lied to (defamation) and those lies were weaponized (interference) to get you fired. 3 wks testimony, 2 days deliberation, clear conclusion

Remember Whitehead claimed privilege to prevent us from obtaining their communications with the HAS investigators. So they claimed that HAS was independent but then also their lawyers. Which is it?

The barbarians are no longer at the door. They're inside, and increasingly they're products of the very system they despise. They are not afraid, not even the law. One doesn't wish for scenes like this or for innocent people to suffer. But perhaps it takes scenes like this for the West to wake up to what decades of mollycoddling, accommodation, and submission have enabled.

Key question - what does this unanimous jury decision supporting his defamation charges imply or suggest about the validity of the decisions by @WhiteheadInst @MIT and @hhmi_science to terminate @DMSabatini employment based mainly on her claims?

Another grand victory for better education

A ton of people have asked me for my thoughts about “You Can See Everything,” the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary. Here they are: nytimes.com/2026/10/17/busin… via @NYTimes

A civil jury vindicates David Sabatini, awarding him $6M in damages.

Islamoleftism is real, and bad

A laudable left-liberal impulse toward inclusion became a vehicle for all kinds of deeply illiberal anti-individualistic identity politics concepts to enter mainstream Democratic politics. theargumentmag.com/p/the-fox…

France 24 reports a “chorus of praise” for Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize. But what about the chorus of dissent from human rights scholars, activists, democracy dissidents, lawmakers, scholars and a U.N. whistleblower? Here are a few voices you forgot to report, @France24: 🧵

1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists follow their curiosity. This is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!

I'm not Jewish. I'm Belgian (with a dash of North-African DNA). And I'm a proud Zionist. Why? Because among the world’s many nationalisms, Zionism has historically been one of the most benign, inclusive, and progressive. Because if any people on earth has earned a country of its own after centuries of persecution and slaughter, it’s the Jews. And Israel is their historical homeland, the land from which they were driven by a long succession of conquerors and empires. Because I have enormous admiration for Jewish cultural and intellectual achievement, and a commensurate understanding of the resentment and envy this has stirred up among the less accomplished. Without a state of their own, Jews will keep being hunted down and killed by those who hate them. And because I can’t stand dishonesty, lies, and hypocrisy, above all the obsessive singling out of one “ethnostate” for condemnation while ignoring the two dozen far worse ones surrounding it. Do you know why many Arab and Muslim Israelis fear being incorporated into a Palestinian state as part of a land swap in a two-state solution? Why they prefer to remain Israeli citizens? Because they have actual skin in the game, unlike all you performative "anti-Zionists". Arab Israelis know that they enjoy more political rights and freedoms in Israel than they would in the world's 22nd Arab state, as all the previous ones have been dysmal failures. Because even they are Zionists.