I admire her persistence. I'm so sorry it was called for. I wish I didn't feel that lots of folks believe that her Nobel somehow makes up for all that, all those starved and oppressive years. I point out that timelines can make a big difference in assessing success, failure, or trend.

And I wonder whether people still blithely claim that "markets" (more often organizations like universities or firms) are really really good at selecting for "quality." I haven't heard so much of it over the past decade or so, but that's also related to whom I encounter.