Attempts to Elucidate the Reasons Why Mycobacterial Infections Are Generally Intractable.

Why proofs by mathematical induction are generally not explanatory

Proposed accounts of scientific explanation have long been tested against certain canonical examples. Various arguments are paradigmatically explanatory, such as Newton’s explanations of Kepler’s laws and the tides, Darwin’s explanations of various biogeographical and anatomical facts, Wegener’s explanation of the correspondence between the South American and African coastlines, and Einstein’s ...

Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial infections

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “Opportunist” mycobacterial infections

We were greatly impressed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee guidelines on the management of opportunist mycobacterial infections. We do, however, wonder why the word “opportunist” has been used to describe the mycobacteria, other than the M tuberculosis complex, that cause human disease. All mycobacteria causing disease, even the M tuberculosis complex, are opportunists. Thus, the latter are ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “Opportunist” mycobacterial infections

We were greatly impressed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee guidelines on the management of opportunist mycobacterial infections. We do, however, wonder why the word “opportunist” has been used to describe the mycobacteria, other than the M tuberculosis complex, that cause human disease. All mycobacteria causing disease, even the M tuberculosis complex, are opportunists. Thus, the latter are ...

The reasons so many people support physician-assisted suicide--and why these reasons are not convincing.