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...mock press conference this Wednesday at Harvard Medical School, Harvard and MIT professors, Nobel laureates and physicians formally announced the incorporation of their own health maintenance organization, HMO Black--a satirical jab at managed health care...
...very serious message but you can get it across perhaps more effectively by having some fun," said participant Dudley R. Herschbach, a Nobel laureate and Baird professor of science, in an interview. "It's a question do you weep or do you laugh? Sometimes if you get people laughing you can bring them around to focus on the questions a lot better...
...professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine Michelene Mathews Roth as well as MIT professor Jerome Lettvin. The mock conference featured a uniformed umpire--employed by HMO Black to arbitrate patient-practitioner disputes--and a videotaped testimonial from Lawrence professor of chemistry emeritus William N. Lipscomb, also a Nobel laureate...
...latest HMO was first proposed in an editorial in the May/June 1997 issue of Annals of Improbable Research, The Journal of Record for Inflated Research and Personalities (AIR)--a publication sometimes described as the MAD magazine of science. Abrahams is the editor of AIR which annually hosts the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, honoring people whose achievements "cannot or should not be reproduced...
...Wilmut, the king of clone, will have to wait a while to claim his Nobel Prize. But it is not too early to give him the 1997 Brevity Award. His paper in Nature announcing his creation of Dolly runs fewer than three pages. (Technical notes take up part of a fourth.) Most scientific papers--most people--take three pages to clear their throat...