AI is not an excuse!

Severe trauma is not an excuse for prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis.

HYPOTHESIS For critically injured patients, a limited course of antibiotics is as effective as a prolonged course in preventing sepsis and organ failures. DESIGN Prospective nonrandomized study. SETTING Surgical intensive care unit (SICU) of an academic hospital with a level I trauma center. PATIENTS A population of 250 trauma patients who required an operation and SICU stay of 3 days or ...

HIV: low prevalence is no excuse for not testing.

Using Charity Performance Metrics as an Excuse Not to Give

There is an increasing pressure to “give wisely.” In a series of experiments, this paper indeed confirms that individuals give less to charities with lower performance metrics. Part of this reduction in giving, however, appears to be driven by individuals overweighting their dislike of low performance metrics as an excuse not to give. Excuse-driven responses to performance metrics persist even ...

How Good is This Excuse

Utilizing studies which validate voter turnout, previous researchers have been able to identify a strong tendency for individuals to report voting when they in fact did not. In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of a new turnout question on reducing voter over-reporting in the National Election Study. Providing respondents with socially acceptable excuses for not voting, we find that this ...

Peter Westen an Attitudinal Theory of Excuse

The mother lode of criminal responsibility scholarship is a unitary theory of criminal excuses, that is, a persuasive normative account of why the criminal law adjudges actors to be blameless despite their having engaged in prohibited conduct. The law’s other criminal defenses do not readily lend themselves to unitary normative accounts or, if they do, they rest on normative accounts that are s...