This module explores the connection between statements that involve probabilities and those phrases used for evidentiary purposes in the courts. We begin with Jack Weinstein, a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York, and his views on the place that probability has in litigation. Jack Weinstein may be the only federal judge ever to publish an article in a major statistics journal; his...

Einstein's philosophy of physics (as clarified by Fine and Howard) was predicated on his Trennungsprinzip, a combination of separability and locality, without which he believed " physical thought " and " physical laws " to be impossible. Bohr's philosophy (as elucidated by Hooker, Scheibe, Folse, Howard, and others), on the other hand, was grounded in a seemingly different doctrine about the po...

Einstein’s philosophy of physics (as clarified by Fine, Howard, and Held) was predicated on his Trennungsprinzip, a combination of separability and locality, without which he believed objectification, and thereby “physical thought” and “physical laws”, to be impossible. Bohr’s philosophy (as elucidated by Hooker, Scheibe, Folse, Howard, Held, and others), on the other hand, was grounded in a se...

Al-Andalus society (711-1492) based its idea of health on the wisdom of Classical Greece, the Hippocratic-Galenic theories, as well as the Persian and Hindu cultures. The twelfth century in al-Andalus is considered to be the most prolific period for works of a scientific and technical nature. At the time, the main treatises on dietetics were written and this science reached its widest expressio...

THE INCIDENCE of atrioventricular dissociation and Stokes-Adams seizures has been variously estimated. Rowe and White reviewed 160,000 electrocardiograms taken at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1925 to 1955 and discovered 350 patients who showed complete atrioventricular dissociation. Penton, Miller, and Levine reported 251 cases of complete heart block during a 42 year period. In Rowe...

OBJECTIVE To assess the necessity of routine preoperative type and screen testing before a cholecystectomy, hernia repair, or appendectomy based on the risk of transfusion in our department. METHOD We conducted a retrospective analysis of the surgical database of patients who underwent a cholecystectomy, a hernia repair, or an appendectomy at Maimonides Medical Center over a 2-year period and...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to document the effectiveness of a Cholinesterase Inhibitor (ChE-I) Review Committee in a long-term care (LTC) institution in Montreal, Canada. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Maimonides Geriatric Centre (MGC), a 387-bed LTC facility in Montreal, Canada, in which 352 patients have dementia. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-two patients on ChE-I who we...

The publication of Leo Strauss's Studies in Platonic Philosophy, more than a decade after Strauss's death, is evidence that his work endures, and of something more.' On the first point, it is sufficient to mention that the book was widely noticed, notwithstanding that, save for two short notes on Maimonides, it is an assemblage of previously published pieces. On the second, we may take our bear...