California's money woes hit universities

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...

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.

152 153 154 157 158 NIH Misconduct Procedures Derailed a More Woes for Gallo Leon Lederman's Quest: Double Science Funding Skeptics and Visionaries Examine Energy Saving * Hope for Eastern Europe? Was Paul Biddle Too Tough on Stanford? Briefings: OSTP Fills Life Sciences Post a U.S. Drilling Takes New Tack a Poland Joins CERN a Ice Damage at SLAC a Cell Bank for Mental Illnesses a What Went Dow...

The Woes of an Editor

Milwaukee's water woes.

The present edition of the British Journal of Cancer contains an article by Stanton et al. on the prognostic significance of DNA ploidy and S-phase analysis in breast cancer. Insofar as hardly a week goes by without a similar manuscript appearing for review, the decision to publish this paper could be questioned, especially as it reports largely negative findings. In this Editorial I would like...