Artemisinin Resistance and the Blame Game

The Blame Game

I propose a textual analysis-based measure to detect when corporate executives blame bad performance on external factors such as industry or the economy (BLAME measure). Using this methodology to analyze quarterly earnings announcement conference call transcripts, I find that: (1) executives are more likely to blame these external factors when their companies experience bad performance, but are...

Don't play the blame game.

Time to stop the blame game.

everyone makes mistakes – as the saying goes, ‘We’re only human’. While for most people, their mistakes do not come to the public’s attention, for those working in professions such as medicine and veterinary medicine, the consequences of an error can be severe, even fatal. Speaking at the BSAvA congress earlier this month, Catherine oxtoby, who has studied the causes and types of error in veter...

Artemisinin combination therapies and malaria parasite drug resistance: the game is afoot.

Steve M. Taylor and Jonathan J. Juliano Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, and Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel ...

The Blame Game Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government