Eric Tait

What the graph actually shows is that medicine evaluates more than one variable, while internet race theorists desperately wish it did not. You stare at overlapping distributions among already elite applicants and somehow see a complete hierarchy of human worth, future physician quality, and intellectual legitimacy. Medicine learned long ago that reality is more complicated than your spreadsheet theology.

My roommate worked as a strip club bouncer, when he’d tell people they’d usually say something like “heh must be awesome to work with a bunch of babes!” and he’d just stare off in space like a WW1 vet remembering how it smelled when his unit got vaporized in an artillery barrage.

The alcohol industry has lost $830 billion over the past four years because Generation Z is consuming less alcohol.

as much as I’d love for ever Black student to go to an HBCU, there’s no infrastructure in place in the Black community or at our schools for college athletes to give up their dreams to advocate for voting rights. funding and years of educating and mobilizing athletes has to come before this.

Negro League All Star Game, 1940s 🔥🔥🔥‼️

Unless our Medical Schools do a better job of screening admission candidates, we won’t have any Doctors. If you don’t want to practice FULL time for at least 20-25 years, pick another profession.

Unless our Medical Schools do a better job of screening admission candidates, we won’t have any Doctors. If you don’t want to practice FULL time for at least 20-25 years, pick another profession.

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?” “So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!” “Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?” “That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.” “And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.” “We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.” “We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.” Exactly!

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

First day of warm weather and police had to impose an emergency 8PM curfew in Long Branch, NJ "Large crowd of unruly teens"

Unless our Medical Schools do a better job of screening admission candidates, we won’t have any Doctors. If you don’t want to practice FULL time for at least 20-25 years, pick another profession.

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

One of the things I continue to find remarkable in this debate is how many people look at Black students scoring in the 95th percentile on the MCAT — often higher than the average matriculant at most American medical schools — and still conclude they were admitted “only because of race.” These are objectively elite academic performers. Many scored higher than applicants admitted to excellent medical schools across the country. And yet some people persist in speaking as though the mere existence of Black students at Yale is proof that standards collapsed and that unnamed “more deserving” Asian applicants were robbed. At that point, the conversation is no longer about MCAT scores. It is about an inability to imagine that highly accomplished Black students belong in elite institutions. What also fascinates me is how quickly social media pundits become absolute authorities on physician selection, while dismissing the judgment of admissions committees at institutions that have spent generations training world-class physicians and scientists. Medicine is harder — and more human — than sorting percentiles on a spreadsheet.