Should Committees That Write Guidelines and Recommendations Publish Dissenting Opinions?

How to Write and Publish Scientific Papers

Why Write and Publish a Scientific Paper?

Starting January 2000, along with Moshe Schein, a wellknown prolific and astute writer, and John Fardon, then editor in chief of the British Journal of Surgery, I contributed to a series of articles published in the British Journal of Surgery the first of which was entitled ‘‘Why publish?’. I was also coeditor of a book entitled ‘‘All you ever wanted to know about (publishing) but never dared t...

Should Computers Write Spoken Language?

Recently there has developed a great deal of interest in the differences between written and spoken language. I joined this trend a little more than a year ago, and have been exploring not only what the specific differences are, but also the reasons why they might exist. The approach I have taken has been to look for differences between the situations and processes involved in speaking on the o...

Should We Write Prenuptial Contracts?

A successful marriage requires for both parties to make investments in their relationship and marital assets. How such assets would be divided if and when the parties divorce is an important factor determining each party’s (exante) investment incentives. Using the “incomplete contracting” approach, we characterize the optimal asset division rule, one that provides the parties with the best inve...

National guidelines on alcohol use during pregnancy: a dissenting opinion.

New national guidelines recommend that women who choose to drink alcohol during pregnancy "should have less than seven standard drinks" in any week and "no more than two standard drinks" on any one day, and that they should never become intoxicated. Exposure to alcohol at these recommended levels has been shown to affect brain development and certain behaviours in animals. Some longitudinal stu...