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...

The Christian Church has traditionally held that the inspiration of Holy Scripture is verbal, plenary, and confluent. But such an affirmation may seem to be incoherent. For if Scripture is the product of both divine and human free agency, then it seems impossible that God should have sufficient control of the various authors of Scripture so as to produce a Word that is verbally and plenarily hi...

V^ulture though apparently elusive is always present in our day to day practice of psychiatry. A look at the history of cultural psychiatry amply demonstrates it. With the gradual and difficult entry of psychiatry into the realm of medicine came classification of various mental problems into disease entities. Proof of both scientific status and physical causation lay in finding universality of ...

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Ron Laskey — soon to head a new institute in Cambridge, UK, devoted to the molecular biology of cancer — is probably one of the few scientists to derive inspiration from the French existentialist André Gide. Pinned on the notice board above Laskey’s desk, alongside holiday snaps of his family climbing in the French Alps, is a quotation from Gide: “One does not discover new lands without consent...

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...

Ron Laskey — soon to head a new institute in Cambridge, UK, devoted to the molecular biology of cancer — is probably one of the few scientists to derive inspiration from the French existentialist André Gide. Pinned on the notice board above Laskey’s desk, alongside holiday snaps of his family climbing in the French Alps, is a quotation from Gide: “One does not discover new lands without consent...

After Goldney ’ s rebuttal of Parker ’ s de haut en bas apothegms, only one question remains to be added: why ignore the elephant in the room: the unitary psychosis? Far from the Swedish study being an incautious feint against papal infallibility, doubts about binary theory go back as far as Kraepelin who, at the end of his life, pointed out that a signifi cant percentage of his dementia praeco...

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...