Another example of how dinosaurs still walk the earth. While he might be tenured, Wikipedia says he’s 71, and I’m sure there’s something about retirement age in the department. Or, as an md, he probably has two parts to his salary: that of a senior professor and an uplift to make up for what a senior md could make in private practice. I suspect the latter part is independent of tenure.

And if it was truly Maoist, he’d be looking at a few years in the tobacco fields for criticizing the thought police.

Edit: judging by the speed this got down rated, I feel pretty confident about the right/libertarian bias to HN. Guess it’s useful providing test cases. And I imagine this guy is chuckles to deal with when working with the women in the department. Too many years, perhaps, being god in academia?