Viral bronchiolitis is the most common reason for infants to be admitted to hospital,1,2 yet we seem powerless to do much about it. Physicians who have been in practice for 30 years or more have ridden the rollercoaster of optimism following the publication of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on bronchiolitis showing the efficacy of bronchodilators, steroids, hypertonic saline and so on, onl...

An infinite binary sequence is deemed to be random if it has all definable properties that hold almost surely for the usual probability measure on the set of infinite binary sequences. There are only countably many such properties, so it would seem that the set of random sequences should have full measure. But in fact there might be no random sequences, because for all we know, there might be n...

Key points A journal is inanimate and incapable of predation, hence there no such thing as a predatory journal. The predators are the publishing company CEOs, owners other complicit people. Those committing fraud identity theft should be prosecuted. Less time effort spent on scholarly investigations. More now devoted to prosecutions.

The Court of Appeal decision in Official Assignee v Wilson is the leading New Zealand case on "sham trusts". Obiter, O'Regan and Robertson JJ held that for a sham trust to exist, settlor trustee must have common intention not create trust. Post-Wilson, debate continues over precise elements render sham. Law Commission suggested doctrine, as means analysing validity an express trust, may be best...