The Vempire Bites Back

The "Fodor"-FODOR fallacy bites back

The paper argues that Fodor and Lepore are misguided in their attack on Pustejovsky’s Generative Lexicon, largely because their argument rests on a traditional, but implausible and discredited, view of the lexicon on which it is e ectively empty of content, a view that stands in the long line of explaining word meaning (a) by ostension and then (b) explaining it by means of a vacuous symbol in ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases: Research Bites Back

Progress toward the treatment of three major parasitic diseases (sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasis) was recently demonstrated in an article published online last month in the journal Nature (August 8, 2016). Collectively, these three diseases affect 20million people per year, resulting in 50 thousand deaths. Researchers were able to identify and optimize a small molecule that...

The Apple Bites Back: Claiming Old Orchards for Residential Development

-The growth and metastatic spread of human tumours in immuno suppressed hamsters is described. A variety of human tumours were transplanted to the flank or the cheek pouch of the hamsters. Immunosuppression was obtained by combined thymectomy and ATS treatment. In the period up to 4 months after implantation, metastases to the lungs were observed with carcinomata of breast, colon, larynx and ki...

When the Minimum Wage Bites Back: Quantile Treatment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany

In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile Treatment Effects of the MW on the conditional and unconditional distribution of earnings. For Eastern Germany, the results indicate significant real (nominal) wage increases that rippl...

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