England’s health regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), recently judged Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge as “inadequate” and instigated special measures. The hospital’s reputation guaranteed headlines, as did the resigning chief executive’s self defence. Commentators fanned the flames, questioning the value of over-zealous regulation. The CQC then published a blog, Shooting theMesseng...

Douglas G. Altman Editors of medical journals accept that published research should be open to comment and correction in published correspondence ([1]; Box 1). “Post-publication peer review” enables comments on, clarifi cations of, and corrections to published research. All journals should have a correspondence page for this purpose. I previously criticised the effective “statute of limitations...

Stigma and shame have been features of past pandemics. The stigma associated with disease can be experienced as by those who spread it. In almost all human cultures, there is attached to being “contaminated”, the vulnerability inherent in illness, potentially spreading a others. As previous pandemics taught us, coming into contact with, or highly infectious deadly has social consequences. Hence...

Over the past 25 years, DNA technology has become a cornerstone of criminal investigations across the globe. In Genetic Suspects, a series of essays seeks to address the key issues surrounding the use of DNA technology in forensics, expounding on scientific, legal, and social concerns. The book is written for a specialized audience, as is stated on the back cover ― specifically those with scien...

Sir, Pointing out the obvious (i.e., that seeking homeopathic treatment for cancer prior to early conventional diagnosis could be dangerous, and claiming efficacy for homeopathy’s ultra-highly diluted remedies runs counter to Avogadro’s hypothesis) does not exonerate Dr. Sagar’s editorial of grossly misrepresenting the Memory of Water (MoW) hypothesis 1. This compounds an unwarranted slur not o...

This volume is a detailed participant–observer account of feminist psychology over the last quarter of the last century. Unger is well positioned in this body of research, having edited and authored numerous textbooks and research publications on women, gender, and psychology, as well as having been president of the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35). Unger presents an author...

Over the past 25 years, DNA technology has become a cornerstone of criminal investigations across the globe. In Genetic Suspects, a series of essays seeks to address the key issues surrounding the use of DNA technology in forensics, expounding on scientific, legal, and social concerns. The book is written for a specialized audience, as is stated on the back cover ― specifically those with scien...

s of Invited Speakers Teaching mathematics in context as a social construct H Barnes, University of Pretoria Why is teaching in context a necessary option to consider in the teaching of mathematics? What does it mean to teach mathematics from and in contexts? And what are the possible challenges associated with this practice? The aim of this paper is to attempt to address these questions from l...

Celem artykułu jest analiza konserwatywnych aspektów myśli społeczno-wychowawczej Adama Skwarczyńskiego, czołowego ideologa pracy wychowawczej obozu piłsudczykowskiego. Jego dziełem organizacja podstaw wychowawczych i ideologicznych tego ugrupowania, podjął trud zbudowaniaideowych fundamentów wychowanianowego w Polsce człowieka. Wskazał, jak wielkie są granice człowieczeństwa, nieograniczona mo...

Estep et al.’s Challenge tactics centre on repeating the word “unscientific” as often as possible in the apparent hope that this will render the judges oblivious to the complete absence of substance in their submission. Particularly incongruous is their accusation that I use the media to skirt expert criticism, when the SENS Challenge itself is my most conspicuous effort to do just the reverse,...