Vaccine development for glaucoma: From skepticism to certitude

Development of a diploid cellline from fetal calf lung for virus vaccine production

From Molecular Cloning to Vaccine Development for Allergic Diseases

Allergic diseases are manifested in susceptible individual by exposure to proteins named allergens that induce an immune response mediated by IgE antibody. Numerous allergens from different sources such as plants, insects, mites and mammals have been obtained as recombinant molecules by molecular cloning. These types of molecules have shown molecular, functional and immunological properties sim...

Policy Analysis with Incredible Certitude

Analyses of public policy regularly express certitude about the consequences of alternative policy choices. Yet policy predictions often are fragile, with conclusions resting on critical unsupported assumptions or leaps of logic. Then the certitude of policy analysis is not credible. I develop a typology of incredible analytical practices and gives illustrative cases. I call the...

BonJour’s Abductivist Reply to Skepticism

According to the abductivist reply to skepticism, the continuity, coherence and repeatable regularities found in our sensory experiences cry out for explanation. Abductivists claim the best explanation of these features of our experience is that they reflect objective regularities in the world. They maintain that the hypothesis that our sense experiences are caused by objects having roughly the...

Response to “Skepticism about desert”

Swartzer concludes the paper with the claim that desert is not a basic normative notion. It cannot “supply first principles of justice.” (p. 1) In other words, desert is to be defined in terms of justice, not the other way around. What we deserve just is what we are to receive according to the demands of justice. On this view, to say that a just distribution of goods is such that everyone recei...