Extrasensory deceptions

Deceptions in Quasicrystal Growth

We discuss a new general phenomenon pertaining to tiling models of quasicrystal growth. It is known that with Penrose tiles no (de-terministic) local matching rules exist which guarantee defect-free tiling for regions of arbitrary large size. We prove that this property holds quite generally: namely, that the emergence of defects in quasicrystal growth is unavoidable for all aperiodic tiling mo...

Medicine, lies and deceptions.

This article offers a qualified defence of the view that there is a moral difference between telling lies to one's patients, and deceiving them without lying. However, I take issue with certain arguments offered by Jennifer Jackson in support of the same conclusion. In particular, I challenge her claim that to deny that there is such a moral difference makes sense only within a utilitarian fram...

Do pathologists have extrasensory perception?

Victories and deceptions in tumor immunology

The last year closed with negative news for tumor immunology. Stimuvax, an investigational therapeutic anticancer vaccine that Merck licensed from the US biotech firm Oncothyreon, failed to increase overall survival in a Phase III clinical trial designed to evaluate its efficacy in a cohort of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) patients. Stimuvax, also known as L-BLP25 or BLP25, is a liposom...

Extrasensory electroencephalographic induction between identical twins.

Alpha rhythms have been elicited in one of a pair of identical twins as a result of evoking these rhythms in a conventional manner solely in the other.