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The CANTOS Trial

The importance of inflammation in atherosclerosis has been a topic of basic research for several decades. However, despite a clear link between inflammation and atherosclerosis in contemporary vascular biology, clinical data demonstrating a direct benefit of targeting inflammation on patient outcomes have been absent—until now. The CANTOS (Canakinumab Anti-Inflammatory Thrombosis Outcome Study)...

Les Irwig , Jonathan Craig and Paul Glasziou against existing diagnostic pathways Comparative accuracy : assessing new tests

What makes a Pollock Pollock: a machine vision approach

Jackson Pollock introduced a revolutionary artistic style of dripping paint on a horizontal canvas. Here we study Pollock’s unique artistic style by using computational methods for characterizing the low-level numerical differences between original Pollock drip paintings and drip paintings of other painters who attempted to mimic his signature drip painting style. Four thousands and twenty four...

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Pollock and Sturgeon on defeaters

Scott Sturgeon has recently challenged Pollock’s account of undercutting defeaters. The challenge involves three primary contentions: (1) the account is both too strong and too weak, (2) undercutting defeaters exercise their power to defeat only in conjunction with higher-order beliefs about the basis of the lower-order beliefs whose justification they target, and (3) since rebutting defeaters ...