AJL Comment: One Philosopher is Correct (Maybe)

Calcium builds strong bones, and more is better--correct? Well, maybe not.

Calcium supplementation has been considered the gold standard therapy for osteoporosis in the general population. It is given in both the placebo and treatment groups of trials evaluating antifracture efficacy of new therapies. Similarly, calcium-based phosphate binders have been considered the gold standard comparator for all new phosphate binders. However, large randomized trials demonstrate ...

Is "ethicist" anything to call a philosopher?

Maybe it is time to rediscover bureaucracy?

The paper questions the fashionable ideas, that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable and non-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards marketor network organization. In contrast, the paper argues that contemporary democracies are involved in another round in a perennial debate and ideological struggle over what...

The Vanity of the Economist: A Comment on Peart and Levy's The “Vanity of the Philosopher”*

In the Vanity of the Philosopher, Sandra Peart and David Levy reconsider “postclassical” economics from the vantage point of Adam Smith’s “analytical” egalitarianism. Analytical egalitarianism is assumed, not proved; and Peart and Levy’s criticisms of many 19and early 20-century economists, as well as eugenics in general, depend on equivocating between analytical and substantive egalitarianism....

Direct is correct

A challenge to conventional thinking has been met and answered by two new articles in this issue. Hua et al. (page 1035< / A r t R e f >) and Paladino et al. (page < A r t R e f v o l = " 1 7 2 " I s s = " 7 " > 1023< / A r t R e f >) have imaged live three-dimensional cells to reaffi rm that a class of proteins takes a direct route to the apical membrane. The suggestion that GPI-linked apical ...