AIDS: US administration's parsimony criticized

EPA's PM2.5 program criticized.

Clinical Psychology Adversely Criticized

From visits to a number of clinics and other places where mental retardation or deficiency is receiving attention, from interviews with physicians and psychologists who are not working in the field, and from current journals and newspapers, criticisms have been gathered of clinical psychology in its present status. The adverse criticisms may be reduced to the following:?(1) Mental tests are bei...

US to tackle AIDS on the border.

The US Health and Human Services Department plans to spend $11 million over the next 5 years in demonstration projects designed to provide care for people with AIDS who live along the US-Mexico border. The grant, announced by US Health and Human Services Secretary Donna E. Shalala on World AIDS Day, December 1, will first be awarded to 4 projects in each of the 4 border states, Arizona, Califor...

Effort reporting: government drops much-criticized paperwork.

Ideological parsimony

The theoretical virtue of parsimony values the minimizing of theoretical commitments, but theoretical commitments come in two kinds: ontological and ideological. While the ontological commitments of a theory are the entities it posits, a theory’s ideological commitments are the primitive concepts it employs. Here, I show how we can extend the distinction between quantitative and qualitative par...