Agarose Advocate

Advocate for our patients.

The consultant as advocate.

Another second opinion consultation, you whisper to yourself as you prepare to greet the young patient who is awaiting your initial evaluation. Ben Stevenson was referred by a member of your study club. You recall reviewing this 11-year-old boy's radiographs early this morning. The film shows approximately 50% root development of the succedaneous teeth with immobile deciduous canines and molars...

The Devil’s Advocate

Over the centuries, many different arguments have been used to support the belief in God. These range from the abstruse and theoretical, such as Anselm’s famous Ontological Argument, to the relatively down-to-earth and practical, such as Pascal’s Wager; but nearly all of them share a common weakness on which I intend to focus. I shall claim that the theistic arguments typically take for granted...

Why Advocate Pancritical Rationalism?

This paper provides a rationale for advocating pancritical rationalism. First, it argues that the advocate of critical rationalism may accept (but not be internally justified in accepting) that there is ‘justification’ in an externalist sense, specifically that certain procedures can track truth, and suggest that this recognition should inform practice; that one should try to determine which so...

Advocating for the advocate.

In 1849, German pathologist Rudolf Virchow, regarded as the father of modern pathology, released a report that stunned the medical establishment. His report, commissioned by the Prussian government to investigate a typhus epidemic in Upper Silesia, a poor rural area of ethnic Poles, advocated 4 “radical” recommendations: the introduction of Polish as an official language, democratic self-govern...