A Jurisprudential Controversy over Law's Shared Authority?

Urquhart's and Garfield's Laws: The British controversy over their validity

The British controversy over the validity of Urquhart’s and Garfield’s Laws during the 1970s constitutes an important episode in the formulation of the probability structure of human knowledge. This controversy took place within the historical context of the convergence of two scientific revolutions—the bibliometric and the biometric—that had been launched in Britain. The preceding decades had ...

Controversy over BCG Vaccination

Controversy over BCG Vaccination

The Controversy Over Orthomolecular Therapy

Introduction Seventeen years ago, experimental results were published which showed that vitamin B3, used in combination with electroconvulsive therapy, was strikingly effective in the treatment of acute schizophrenia. Over the following few years a specific treatment method evolved which included vitamins B3 and C in amounts much greater than are usually used to treat vitamin deficiencies. This...

The Controversy over Recovered Memories

The authors discuss 4 issues in this commentary: (a) the assumptions and evidence used to support the case for dissociated and recovered memories (noting that the evidence is weak and the assumptions internally inconsistent as well as contradictory to a mass of experimental evidence about human memory); (b) the process by which dissociated memories are said to be recovered (events that were ori...