Against the Excesses of Quantum Gravity: A Plea for Modesty

Laser angioplasty: a plea for modesty in the search for a real beginning.

The status of NeuroLaw: A plea for current modesty and future cautious optimism

Legislators, jurists, and advocates often turn to science to solve complicated normative problems addressed by the law. This article addresses what motivates these parties, surveys the psychology of law and its concepts of the person and responsibi l i ty, and describes the general relat ion of neuroscience to law in terms of the issue of “translation.” Numerous distractions have clouded our un...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

False-Positive Results in Cancer Epidemiology: A Plea for Epistemological Modesty

False-positive results are inherent in the scientific process of testing hypotheses concerning the determinants of cancer and other human illnesses. Although much of what is known about the etiology of human cancers has arisen from well-conducted epidemiological studies, epidemiology has been increasingly criticized for producing findings that are often sensationalized in the media and fail to ...

A Plea Against Retributivism