An illusion of misalignment

An illusion of ingestion.

A pilot project in our laboratory recently revealed that subjects, when asked to ingest an amount of liquid comparable to that displayed in a transparent container, consistently ingested more than the displayed amount. The discovery that subjects are not very accurate at estimating the volume of liquid in their mouths would not be particularly interesting if the errors made by subjects were uns...

Is Strategy an Illusion?

Strategy is the essential ingredient for making war either politically effective or morally tenable. It is the link between military means and political ends, the scheme for how to make one produce the other. Without strategy, there is no rationale for how force will achieve purposes worth the price in blood and treasure. Without strategy, power is a loose cannon and war is mindless. Mindless k...

God and Man in Freudian Psychoanalysis: A Critical Examination of Freud’s The Future of an Illusion

In this article, we have attempted to scrutinize Freud’s psychological analysis of man and God. Four different interpretations of this Freudian analysis have been examined hereunder. Freud believes that religion is the outcome of wishful thinking or fear. Freud’s views on the origin of religion have been stated in a detailed fashion in his works on psychoanalysis. His The Future of an Illus...

Only an Illusion

It's just an illusion.

A 55-year-old man was admitted for impaired health status and lower back pains. Analysis of serum proteins by capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) was performed on a Capillarys Protein(e) 6. The 1-globulin fraction showed a peak suggestive of the presence of a monoclonal component (Fig. 1A, dashed arrow). However, subsequent serum protein immunotyping (Capillarys Immunotyping) failed to demonst...