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“The political balance of all of this was exactly the opposite from where it is now. You heard people on the right complaining that the colleges and universities had gone overboard in attending to the sensitivities of people being offended by a bunch of things,” says Michael Dorf, professor of law.

Cathy Creighton, director of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, explains the constitutional rights of free speech for private sector workers.

Louis Aronne, director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains that a third of people lose 5% or more of their body weight through diet and exercise alone.

Rekha Kumar, associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains why people are experiencing surprise pregnancies while taking weight loss drugs.

William Michael Lynn, professor of services marketing at the Nolan School, says “I myself am comfortable stiffing counter help providing only standardized service, but even I would not feel comfortable stiffing a restaurant server when the service was bad.”

Colleen Carey, assistant professor of economics and public policy, says “It does not seem that this payment induces physicians to switch to drugs with a mortality benefit relative to the drug the patient would have gotten otherwise.”