Election Has Citizenry Nervous on All Sides

Election Has Folks Extremely Nervous on All Sides

The closing days of the presidential election have left citizens extremely anxious on both sides. With lots of negative, angry campaigning and unprecedented actions by FBI in the closing days of election, the campaign has rightly raised fear levels. Just yesterday FBI Director Comey announced there are no charges warranted by new Clinton emails found in another unrelated investigation by the FBI. In July Comey criticized Hillary Clinton with carelessness in handling classified information but determined that there was no basis for criminal charges.

Clinton’s opponents cried for her persecution, jailing and worse as Donald Trump’s rallies and social media has taken on a negative role in trivializing the value of facts and a rush to punishment and imprisonment before reaching criminal charges. The association of Trump’s campaign with the alt right, authoritarianist Russia and potential fascism has raised grave concern on large numbers of people in both parties. Clearly, no matter what the outcome tomorrow there will be a period of healing of the country required before the polity can function effectively. The challenge will be whether or not the citizenry can accept the voters’ choice peacefully and the Congress can return to ending the gridlock driven by Republicans who couldn’t accept the Presidency of Barack Obama. Trump has cried election is rigged along with lots of conspiracy theories that have made me nervous that he has unearthed potential violent behavior of segments of the populace.

“Comey Now Says No Charges Warranted by New Clinton Emails” by Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post

November 6, 16.

Highlights of Bay Area Bioscience Events the Week of November 7, 2016

• Bio2Device Group, Tuesday Evening, Nov. 8, 2016, Topic: “SF Bay Area Biomedical Industry Emergence: Sectors, Talent, and Resources,” Speaker: Gregory Theyel, Director, Biomedical Manufacturing Network
• San Francisco WIB, Wednesday Evening, Nov. 9, 2016, Topic: “Intellectual Property (IP) Basics
  for Future Entrepreneurs;” Janet Xiao, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP, our panel includes the following industry, academia, and legal experts: Mei Hong, IP Manager, Eureka Therapeutics; Shannon Reaney, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP; Sunita Rajdev, Associate Director, Technology Licensing at UCSF;Mona Wan, Associate Director, Technology Licensing at Stanford University
• San Francisco AWIS, Wednesday Evening, Nov. 9, 2016; Topic: “Thriving in a Disruptive World: Leveraging Diversity to Drive Innovation;” Speaker: Julius Pryor III, Author and Expert in Innovation, Diversity & Inclusion
• PBSS Workshop, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016; Topic: “Statistics and Biostatistics for Non-Statisticians: Fundamentals and Applications in Research and Drug Development;” Speakers: Saling Huang and Zhen Zhang (Abbott Vascular) and Snow Ge (Nektar Therapeutics)

 

Details for the above events and those through December are found in audreys-picks-nov-7-2016.

Audrey