SOME FALLACIES IN LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

menon are almost identical, and yet we never dream of calling the process general, or attributing it to a general cause. It is true its " prevalence" may be influenced by general conditions. Famine or sickness would render it less general; and plenty and health more general; yet it would be an absurdity to generalize the phenomenon or rather the aggregate of phenomena, as we are apt to treat th...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

There is some thing in the history of the past which exercises a remarkable influence on the human mind. Evidence which, if it related to passing events, would be rejected and ridiculed, is accepted, when it refers to things of former years, with an amount of interest, faith, and veneration, which is very curious. Scepticism as to the present is considered a legitimate, nay, healthy, mental att...

On Some Prominent Fallacies in Epidemiology

temper of learning when men study words not matter; for words are but the images of matter, and, except they have life of reason and invention to fall in love with them, is all one as to fall in love with a picture." The great prophet of inductive philosophy has here touched the very core of the errors and vanities which gather round epidemiological research, and impede progress in the acquisit...

Membrane optical activity: some facts and fallacies.

The circular dichroism of hypothetical, water-filled, spherical shells, 75-3500 nm in radius, with walls 7.5 nm thick, composed of poly(L-lysine) in various conformational proportions, and suspended in water, were computed from the known optical properties of this polypeptide by classical general light-scattering theory (Mie theory). Comparison of the computed curves of circular dichroism spect...