Finally Posting Where this Blog Started
BioCentury Edition: January 2, 2017 (pp. 22-24) Leadership and responsibility By Steven Holtzman, President and CEO, Decibel Therapeutics Inc. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity . -- The Second Coming , W.B. Yeats Be not deceived…for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. -- Epistle to the Galatians, 6:7, Paul In the presidential election, a significant proportion of American voters, feeling unspoken for and left behind by establishment politicians and policies, expressed their displeasure and desire for change. The campaign also gave voice to disturbing currents of thought -- a disregard for science, a lack of respect for defined s...