ED03.04 Trumping Big Tobacco

Trumping Preemption

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Big marijuana--lessons from big tobacco.

highly efficient vector, a nonimmune population, and mining conditions that encouraged both vector breeding and malaria transmission fueled recurrent epidemics of malaria, which apparently started in the 1940s or early 1950s; 80% of the cases were P. falciparum. In 1955, public health authorities in Pailin began distributing chloroquine to workers daily; later, the frequency was reduced to twic...

Experts want Big Tobacco on trial.

Trumping assessments and the aristotelian future

1 Truth-relativism For our purposes, truth-relativism can be characterised as the doctrine that in a single world the very same token utterance can take different truth-values when considered in different contexts of assessment. The root semantic idea is already present in Lewis’s 1980, where an utterance of a sentence like “It is raining” is conceived as receiving a truth-value only when the v...

Hypertension guidelines: political correctness trumping expertise?

Hypertension Guidelines: Political Correctness Trumping Expertise? To the Editor: Guidelines are traditionally scripted by a panel of experts who are intimately familiar with the topic in question. Webster’s dictionary defines an expert as someone who is “having, involving, or displaying special skill or knowledge derived from training or experience.” A straightforward way to estimate such expe...