Unsafe Condoms and Other Unsafe Sex Accessories

Researchers argue that unsafe injections spread HIV more than unsafe sex.

Nondeterminism: Unsafe?

A class of software is identified where a nondeterminism analysis is not inherently less safe than a deterministic analysis. Tools built for that class of software can be simple to build, fast to run, and scale to very large problems. An examples of one such tool is discussed here.

Unsafe Knowledge

Ernest Sosa has argued that if someone knows that p, then his belief that p is “safe,” and Timothy Williamson has agreed. In this paper I argue that safety, as defined by Sosa, is not a necessary condition on knowledge—that we can have unsafe knowledge. In the next section I present Sosa’s definition of safety, and in section III I present a counterexample to it as a necessary condition on know...

Unsafe Abortion in Tanzania

Current abortion law is restrictive, but its legal interpretation needs to be clarified. In Tanzania, the penal code explicitly states that termination of pregnancy is legally permitted if it is performed to save a woman’s life.1 However, a recent report indicated that since Tanzania’s legal system is based on English common law, the English case of Rex v. Bourne could be applied in the interpr...

Unsafe Injections, Fatal Infections

It is a question he has already posed many times this morning and most of his patients are happy to comply. In fact they expect him to offer an injection and might feel cheated if he did not. This scenario is repeated in urban and rural clinics, in high-tech hospitals, and in shanty pharmacies every day across the globe. The World Health Organization estimates that about 12 billion injections a...