It is widely claimed that research to discover and develop new pharmaceuticals entails high costs and high risks. High research and development (R&D) costs influence many decisions and policy discussions about how to reduce global health disparities, how much companies can afford to discount prices for lowerand middle-income countries, and how to design innovative incentives to advance research...

The Symposium of Plato presents the demythologizing of the god Eros, that is, the rational clarification of his nature. At a dinner to celebrate the victory of the tragic poet Agathon in the Theatre, the guests all give speeches in honour of the god. Of the initial speakers, neither the comic poet Aristophanes nor the tragic poet Agathon can give more than a partial account of his nature, and i...

Obviously, removing the supernatural from the Bible touches the foundation facts of the Christian faith: the incarnation and. resurrection of Christ. And it is interesting to observe that even scholars who engage in the demythologizing ‘process take issue with one another over their treatment of these, crucial matters. Yet the dilemma seems to be that if one does not retain the incarnation and ...

The reply of de la Torre, Daleo and García-Mata [Eur. J. Phys. 23 (2002) L15–L16] to a criticism of their 'demythologizing' analysis of the clock-in-the-box debate between Einstein and Bohr is commented on. The main point of the reply [1] of de la Torre, Daleo and García-Mata (TDG) to my criticism [2] of their 'demythologizing' analysis [3] of the arguments of Bohr and Einstein concerning the f...