A deposition is a formal statement taken under oath and recorded by a certified court reporter. Iowa law provides for “discovery of evidence.” This means defense counsel has the right to ask questions of any prosecution witness in a particular criminal case. Scheduling a deposition makes this “discovery” more organized than having an investigator or defense attorney come to your home or place o...

The field of social psychology explores how a person behaves within the context of other people. The social context can play a substantive role in non-market allocation decisions given peoples choices and values extend beyond the classic market-based exchange institution. Herein we explore how social psychology has affected one aspect of environmental economics: preference elicitation through s...

We vigorously object to the normalization of childhood gender identity disorder (GID) promoted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in the article “Psychological and Medical Care of Gender Nonconforming Youth,” published in the December issue of Pediatrics. The recommendations of the authors to reinforce the delusions of gender identity–confused children, and to prescribe puberty-blockin...

On Christmas Eve 1402, Hungarian noblemen gathered in the Cathedral of Nagyvárad, where St. Ladislas’ tomb was located, and swore an oath on holy king’s relics. They proclaimed thus their allegiance to King Ladislas Naples conspired against ruling Sigis mund Luxemburg. By swearing relics, conspirators united minds forces around ideal figure king knight who became symbol a political cause embodi...

One of the psychological assumptions implicit in the law of evidence is that all human testimony in its natural state is too untrustworthy to be considered by a jury unless its narration be conditioned in a manner calculated so to improve it in trustworthiness as to avoid the danger of the jury's being deceived into an erroneous verdict.' Thus for such a purpose there are provided certain condi...

Josh Lederberg was already worried a generation ago: “One of the major trends of scientific writings for the past century is the systematic falsification of the actual techniques and method of discovery (1).” Lederberg wasn’t concerned that published papers fail to mention the false starts, wrong turns, or dead ends on the road to discovery. He accepted the conventional forms of scientific publ...