International Practitioner Data Bank: False Premise, False Promise

International Practitioner Data Bank: false premise, false promise.

In 1984, the US General Accounting Office issued a report pointing out that physicians who lost their licence to practice in one state were continuing to practice in another [1]. In 1986, a federal court issued a ruling that physicians carrying out peer review activities in an Oregon medical clinic violated antitrust laws [2]. Both actions triggered calls for congressional action. Consumer advo...

The false premise of partition

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The False Promise of Principled Negotiations

The false promise of the better argument

Tine Hanrieder International Theory / Volume 3 / Issue 03 / November 2011, pp 390 ­ 415 DOI: 10.1017/S1752971911000182, Published online: 20 September 2011 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1752971911000182 How to cite this article: Tine Hanrieder (2011). The false promise of the better argument. International Theory, 3, pp 390­415 doi:10.1017/S1752971911000182 Reque...

Basing drug scheduling decisions on scientific ranking of harmfulness: false promise from false premises.

In recent years a number of studies have attempted to rank drugs by a single measure of harmfulness as the basis for decisions about scheduling and classification. These efforts are fundamentally flawed, both conceptually and methodologically. The effort to provide a single measure masks the variety of non-comparable dimensions that are relevant, the fact that benefits are ignored for most, but...