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The development and mass-production of antibiotics ranks as one of the twentieth century’s greatest scientific achievements. For more than 60 years, antibiotics have comprised Western medicine’s primary defense against bacterial disease. But although antibiotics have saved millions of lives, our chemical shield has become increasingly leaky. Just last year, the director-general of the World Hea...

Collaterals IN A SUNLIT WARD OF SUNKEN BODIES, THE YOUNG UGANdan woman’s full, round face hinted at health. As the white coats marched toward her bed, she passed her nursing infant to her mother and fastened the large button at her shoulder in one fluid motion. She had recently arrived at Mulago Hospital, the large public hospital in Kampala, Uganda, complaining of difficulty breathing, unable ...

If you have a restless intellect, it is very likely that you have played at some point with the idea of investigating the meaning and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. It is also probable (albeit not certain) that your intentions have been stopped on their tracks by an encounter with some version of the “Shut up and calculate!” command. You may have heard that everything is already u...

A prevailing view in contemporary philosophy of mind is that zombies are logically possible. I argue, via a thought experiment, that if this prevailing view is correct, then I could be transformed into a zombie. If I could be transformed into a zombie, then surprisingly, I am not certain that I am conscious. Regrettably, this is not just an idiosyncratic fact about my psychology; I think you ar...

Amedeo Giorgi has asserted that the two key procedures that make psychological research genuinely phenomenological are: 1) the epochés: and 2) the intuition of essence. Giorgi’s insistence on this point is reviewed and the often-misunderstood method of grasping essences is explored. Attention is given to Husserl’s ideas about free imaginative variation and the procedures of eidetic analysis. Ex...

The detection and removal of child pornography online is a vexing process, weighted with moral urgency. In recent years, this process has become increasingly digitally automated. In 2016, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) reported that they had reviewed over 500,000 image and video files suspected to contain child pornography; and since 2002 they had reviewed an agg...

To characterize patient satisfaction surveys, such as the U.S. government-mandated Press Ganey health care performance improvement tools, as unpopular among health care providers is an understatement. So it comes as no real surprise that among medical practitioners a recent internet headline went viral that “reported” that a major patient satisfaction study was stopped due to a mortality increa...

Dear comrade Nick Beams, I am a passionate supporter of the WSWS and ICFI.... The main reason I am writing to you is that ... I have discovered serious problems in the ICFI’s position in the field of Classical Political Economy. Otherwise, I consider the ICFI’s perspective to be almost perfect. The field where it is most vulnerable is Political Economy, since, in my opinion, any scholar trained...

A young physicist, Arthur E. Haas, the last Ph.D. student of Ludwig Boltzmann, wanted to explain Planck constant but derived Bohr radius, 3 years before Niels Bohr. He did not write it down since that was his goal. Twenty later, he searched for correlation between forces universe, instead GUT (Grand Unified Theory) became numerology. This article follows quest meaning fundamental constants. gre...