BASF's woes deserve scrutiny

Williamson's Woes

This is a reply to Timothy Williamson’s paper ‘Tennant’s Troubles’. It defends against Williamson’s objections the anti-realist’s knowability principle based on the author’s ‘local’ restriction strategy involving Cartesian propositions, set out in The Taming of the True. Williamson’s purported Fitchian reductio, involving the unknown number of books on his table, is analyzed in detail and shown...

Good ideas deserve repeating.

To the Editor:—In a recent letter, Erickson and Lanier reported on a useful method to preoxygenate claustrophobic patients who will not tolerate a facemask, by having the patients hold the L-connector of the anesthesia circuit in their mouth. They may be interested to know that an identical method, complete with an almost identical photograph, was published as a correspondence by Keifer and Sti...

Trial news: woes, new approaches.

Tomm40 has created a stir in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research with the recent proposal that variablelength polymorphisms of this gene, which lives near apolipoprotein E (ApoE) on chromosome 19, can help predict at what age a person may develop late-onset AD (LOAD) [1,2]. This finding came from analysis of several small cohorts in which ages of LOAD onset were determined retrospectively. Now, n...

More woes for Gallo.

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The Woes of an Editor