Karl Popper discussed admirably the choice between faith and reason [Popper, 1945, Ch. 24]. He admitted that the basis of rationalism is a faith of sorts, a faith in reason. Later on his disciple William W. Bartley dissented from him [Bartley, 1962] and even called him a fideist [Radnitzky and Bartley, 1987, 205, 208, 210-11], much to his annoyance. All this caused bad blood between the two [La...

BACKGROUND Breaking bad news is one of the most stressful and difficult things a physician has to do. Good communication skills are required in order to ensure that bad news is delivered in a humane but effective way. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to explore the preferences and attitude of the Saudi population toward receiving bad news. Second, it was to identify the associations between...

A profession that claims to understand economies, and that has gained power over the greater part of our societies, has big responsibilities. The fundamental responsibility is to ensure its perception of economies gives some useful guidance to the behaviour of real economies. Here mainstream economics fails utterly, and has been failing for a long time. Worse, it actively resists alternative vi...