This needs further looking into - but it is my understanding that the Baylor Medical School in Houston where Hotez works is a completely different institution than the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas which fired McCollough. I think the place in Dallas was once a long time ago affiliated with Baylor University in Waco but that…
This needs further looking into - but it is my understanding that the Baylor Medical School in Houston where Hotez works is a completely different institution than the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas which fired McCollough. I think the place in Dallas was once a long time ago affiliated with Baylor University in Waco but that has been decades ago. It is now its own institution. If my memory serves, this has something to do with the foundation of UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas ( Parkland Hospital) and this would have been back in the 40s and 50s. It is always confusing that the two places share the same name - but I am fairly confident they have nothing to do with one another institutionally.
I didn't know Baylor was so huge as an institution. Baylor-McCullough stuck in my mind as a dyad early on, and nothing in his professional demeanor seemed to explain the dismissal - he did not come across as anything other than collegial and patient-focused. So I have been waiting for some explanation all this time, and this is the first mention of Baylor, coming along with a somewhat controversial figure in the vaccinology/virology world. Perhaps there is nothing connecting these two figures, other than the name Baylor.
What really irks me is that McCullough donated a lot of money to Baylor to have a building I think named after him....wonder if they took down the name too.
This needs further looking into - but it is my understanding that the Baylor Medical School in Houston where Hotez works is a completely different institution than the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas which fired McCollough. I think the place in Dallas was once a long time ago affiliated with Baylor University in Waco but that has been decades ago. It is now its own institution. If my memory serves, this has something to do with the foundation of UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas ( Parkland Hospital) and this would have been back in the 40s and 50s. It is always confusing that the two places share the same name - but I am fairly confident they have nothing to do with one another institutionally.
I didn't know Baylor was so huge as an institution. Baylor-McCullough stuck in my mind as a dyad early on, and nothing in his professional demeanor seemed to explain the dismissal - he did not come across as anything other than collegial and patient-focused. So I have been waiting for some explanation all this time, and this is the first mention of Baylor, coming along with a somewhat controversial figure in the vaccinology/virology world. Perhaps there is nothing connecting these two figures, other than the name Baylor.
What really irks me is that McCullough donated a lot of money to Baylor to have a building I think named after him....wonder if they took down the name too.
This is correct.
I confess, I do not know...and it does need further looking into...but who was Baylor???