Endangering the truth

Endangering the economics of extinction

he core of the broad field of economics considers how to allocate society’s scarce resources among unlimited desires. In systems where choices are impersonal, have an impact isolated to a point in time, and require little to no ethical dilemma, traditional economics and market prices are well suited to inform the best (or optimal) choices. Many choices made in well-defined goods and services ma...

[Scalping, a rare injury sometimes endangering life].

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth

This discussion aims to provide the occasional medical expert witness with background knowledge of the adversarial court system and the role of the medical expert witness within it. The parallel evolution of the adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems has been more out of tradition rather than any systematic review of the effectiveness of one system or the other. Both legal systems have the...

The Truth , the Whole Truth , and Nothing but the Truth

Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In our study of climate change and emissions reductions, we took advantage of the increasing bulk of evidence from psychology and economics that addresses the effects of making promi...

Prokineticin 2 is an endangering mediator of cerebral ischemic injury.

Stroke causes brain dysfunction and neuron death, and the lack of effective therapies heightens the need for new therapeutic targets. Here we identify prokineticin 2 (PK2) as a mediator for cerebral ischemic injury. PK2 is a bioactive peptide initially discovered as a regulator of gastrointestinal motility. Multiple biological roles for PK2 have been discovered, including circadian rhythms, ang...