Articulating our values to clarify our mission: Inviting community participation

Articulating our values to clarify our mission: Inviting community participation

E d i t o r i a l " The mission of The Journal of General Physiology (JGP) is to publish articles that elucidate important biological, chemical , or physical mechanisms of broad physiological significance. The major emphasis is on physiological problems at the cellular and molecular level. " In the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, the title character, a sports management agent, wrote a mission statemen...

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Revising Our Mission

Our Vision and Our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief

Bullshit”, as Harry Frankfurt writes in his recent book “On Bullshit”, is a communication that pretends to be genuinely informative but really is not. The person who talks bullshit, Frankfurt holds, is unconcerned with whether what he says is true, but is very concerned with how he is thought of by the listener. In this paper, I discuss Frankfurt’s theory of bullshit, making specific reference ...

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