Talk:Eric Lander

message: If academics had marketing departments, Lander's glossy brochures might read like this.  Certainly he is an accomplished scientist and leader, but encyclopedia articles shouldn't gush.  121a0012 06:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: added some of his controversies. User:Sawerchessread (talk) 01:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit too favorable? 

message: Profiles in Science | Eric Lander Power in Numbers Science Times: Jan. 3, 2012 by GINA KOLATA New York Times page D1 in print.
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message: I have added a short section on his exposing and correcting widespread flawed interpretation of DNA evidence in the late 1980s, and his involvement with the Innocence Project.  HandsomeMrToad (talk) 03:01, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forensic DNA analysis and the Innocence Project 

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message: To suggest, as the article does (or did, now that I have corrected it) that Lander had "professional connections" with Epstein, overstates (at least) the case, and is not justified by the source (Politico).  No one (at least, no one I'm aware of) has alleged that Lander or the Broad Institute ever received any direct donations from Epstein or had any association with him other than Epstein having contributed money to MIT and Harvard where Lander and other Broad-Institute scientists are professors.  The whole thing seems to boil down to Lander having exchanged words with Epstein at two informal meetings of big donors and big scientists.  Oh, and at one of them Lander allowed himself to be photographed apparently trying to explain something scientific to Epstein. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 20:23, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Professional connections"  

message: One sentence reads:
"Unsure what to do next, he took a job teaching managerial economics at Harvard Business School and began a book on information theory."
What does "began a book" mean here?
Began to read a book?
Began to write a book?
Something else? 2601:200:C000:1A0:F4D0:419F:FAF5:5C8F (talk) 17:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the note about improving the article. I think it's clear that he began to write a book, so I added that to the text. SchreiberBike | ⌨  22:01, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Countless people, myself included, have begun to write a book. Leave that fluff out until the book is actually published. Jonathunder (talk) 01:40, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does "began a book" mean?