A NICE fallacy

only a nice man can be a nice physician

imam ali (peace be upon him) told that physicians must have pietism and don’t abstain from guidance, advice and diligence. islam religion recognizes medicine as an allowable and necessary profession.  prophet mohammad (pbuh) and imams (pbuh) tell that sage physician status in their science, art and tasks like jurisconsult scientist status. more than one thousand years ago, abubakr rabei ebne ah...

The “banzhaf Fallacy” Fallacy

A Social Security Fallacy

The article investigates whether compulsory old age provisions are justified from an econom-ic point of view. According to a standard argument, some people would not provide suffi-

A power fallacy.

The power fallacy refers to the misconception that what holds on average -across an ensemble of hypothetical experiments- also holds for each case individually. According to the fallacy, high-power experiments always yield more informative data than do low-power experiments. Here we expose the fallacy with concrete examples, demonstrating that a particular outcome from a high-power experiment c...

A right Royal porphyria fallacy.

We were intrigued by the cover image for the November 2011 issue of Clinical Chemistry, which showed a cover picture claiming that Mary Queen of Scots had a diagnosis of acute porphyria. The diagnosis of porphyria is usually assigned when a presenting patient is currently symptomatic; the range of indicative symptoms is diverse but relatively well defined. The 3 most common acute porphyrias are...