Pushing a Snowball Down a Hill The UK publication Medical News Today picks up the story of the Harvard AIDS scandal. But where are two logical outlets, the New York Times and the Washington Post? The Times should cover the story because of its inherent importance, and the Post has a local angle—how a university mismanaged a government grant, delaying its implentation in contravention of the terms of the grant—and how, according to AIDS doctors in Africa, people died as a result.

Come on, guys. Get in the game. This story is objectively more important than the women-in-science controversy, and just think of all the newsprint you devoted to that....  ¶ 7:38 AM