Being wrong

Does being wrong make Kettlewell wrong for science teaching ?

Biology textbooks, almost without exception, introduce students to evolutionary theory with reference to the phenomenon of industrial melanism, long regarded as the classic example of natural selection. Its status as an icon among biology teachers and the public stands in stark contrast to ongoing debates among scientists which reveal that this phenomenon is nowhere near as well understood as t...

So what's wrong with being fat?

This is question that my 55-year-old patient asked me in clinic last week. This was not the first time that I had heard this question. Indeed, obesity has become so commonplace in the United States that the asthenic individual has become the exception rather than the rule. With the increasing prevalence (and incidence, too, for that matter) of obesity in our society, patients have come to perce...

What if anything is wrong with cloning a human being?

Is road safety being driven in the wrong direction?

BACKGROUND Road traffic crashes are a major cause of death and injury worldwide and are set to increase as low- and middle-income countries motorize. United Nations (UN)and World Health Organization (WHO) road traffic injury prevention efforts depend on support from external organizations, many of which have commercial interests in increasing car use. Because of concerns about conflict of inter...

Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events: Are they preventable?

HYPOTHESIS Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events (WSPEs) are devastating, unacceptable, and often result in litigation, but their frequency and root causes are unknown. Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient events are likely more common than realized, with little evidence that current prevention practice is adequate. DESIGN Analysis of se...