Dogged by controversy

Dogged Don

Like the movements of the MinD protein, rapid move-1965 to 1996, the period covered by the book, Don Metcalf was Head of the Cancer Research Unit and ments are occurring in the intellectual landscape of cell Assistant Director of the Institute, which was headed biology, and cell polarity is no exception. This volume during this period by Gus Nossal. The focus of Metcalf's is a snapshot of the f...

Seven Dogged Myths Concerning Contingency Fees

Further dogged defense of paraphyletic taxa

fication at a symposium on Linnaean taxonomy at the Smithsonian Institution in 2001. When the paper was published (Brummitt, 2002) I received very many messages of support from people from all around the world. But in this business it seems one never convinces everyone, and I know that others are probably still critical of my views. We need discussion to resolve what I believe are some very imp...

What is a lacune? Dogged déjà vu doggerel.

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Screening for prostate cancer: Controversy? What controversy?

for the absence of a reduction in mortality in the plco trial and in comparison with the difference seen in the erspc trial. The truth of the matter is the psa test should not be used at all in screening for prostate cancer in the manner it has heretofore been used. Prostate-specific antigen, discovered in 1970 5,6 , is a normal component of the prostate. It is not cancer-specific. Rather, it i...