Neuronal misconceptions

Misconceptions and Integration

Introduction: Pervasive beliefs regarding curricular reformand integration have flourished among medical students, facultymembers and medical school administrators. These conceptshave extensively impacted the reform process, sometimes byresisting the reforms and sometimes by diverting the curriculumfrom its planned objectives. In the current paper, we have tried toaddress the challenges of inte...

Marmoset Misconceptions

Beginning with the early 16th century reports by Western scient~sts of tiny, primitive, clawed, squirrel-like monkeys inhabiting the forests of South America, misconceptions and bias regarding tamarin and ~nannoset phylogeny, classification, ecology, behavior, and snatomy have continued. For example, as recently as 1992, Martin tenaciously guarded rtu notion that callitrichines should be specia...

Reified Misconceptions 1 Running head: REIFIED MISCONCEPTIONS Missing Links: How Cladograms Reify Common Evolutionary Misconceptions

Cladograms are tree-like structures devised by evolutionary biologists for conveying patterns of shared ancestry among biological kinds. These representations have become highly popular in science textbooks and science museums, yet most non-biologists have difficulty reading them. Here, I discuss how those difficulties stem from common misconceptions about evolution— misconceptions reinforced n...

Metronomic chemotherapy beyond misconceptions.

Misconceptions about Calorimetry

In the past 50 years, calorimeters have become the most important detectors in many particle physics experiments, especially experiments in colliding-beam accelerators at the energy frontier. In this paper, we describe and discuss a number of common misconceptions about these detectors, as well as the consequences of these misconceptions. We hope that it may serve as a useful source of informat...