Against method‐ism

Racing Against Time Against Zika

Eight thousand microcephalic babies born, and many more to come. Seven months and counting: still no congressional response. The Olympics in Rio just around the corner. And overshadowing it all: millions of women, men, and families in 50 countries and territories living in fear. How long the fear will continue is hard to say. But at the time of this writing, time itself is a major actor in the ...

Using polysaccharides against cancer

Background and objectives: Nowadays cancer is one of the most important concerns of the society. The adverse effects of common therapeutics and resistance of some cancerous cells to treatment have brought the necessity of new approaches towards the issue. Polysaccharides are a group of carbohydrates found in natural sources. In the present article, our goal was to show the posi...

[For or against episiotomy? Against episiotomy].

Against Enterococci

Minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of four antibiotics and their combinations were determined for 38 strains of enterococci by a microtitration tube dilution technique. The drugs were ampicillin, vancomycin, gentamicin, and streptomycin; the combinations were ampicillin-gentamicin, ampicillin-streptomycin, vancomycin-gentamicin, and vancomycin-streptomycin. At achievable serum c...

Against Rationalism

Rationality and the issues associated with it have always occupied a central place within the Western philosophical tradition. Moreover, as the humanities and social sciences have found themselves under assault from post-modernists and deconstructionists, the role of rationality has also become a pressing problem well beyond the borders of philosophy. In this paper I am going to take issue with...