Commentary: Epidemiology and futurology why did Rothman get it wrong?

Commentary: Epidemiology and futurology--why did Rothman get it wrong?

The human lung: did evolution get it wrong?

Some 300 million yrs ago, the ancestors of modern reptiles emerged from water and were committed to air breathing. They were exothermic and incapable of sustained levels of high physical activity. But from them evolved the two great classes of vertebrates with high levels of maximal oxygen consumption: the mammals and birds. A remarkable feature of these two divergent evolutionary lines is that...

Why does medical research sometimes get it so wrong

Douglas Altman, back in 1994, wrote a highly influential paper in the British Medical Journal entitled ‘the scandal of poor medical research’ (1). It focused on the prevalence of poor design and analysis in medical research. Altman believed the reason was a general failure to appreciate the principles underlying scientific research, coupled with the ‘publish or perish climate’ where scientific ...

Interpreting Caritas : Did Frank Knight and Ludwig Von Mises Get It Wrong ?

Knight and Mises claimed Christianity, both in its early history and in its modern political role, was incompatible with market economics. Competition to satisfy partners in voluntary exchange, investment, and the achievement of property and wealth received little or no sanction from a religion that preached “no thought for the morrow” and commanded “love of one’s neighbor.” Prompted by their d...

How textbooks (and learners) get it wrong: A corpus study of modal auxiliary verbs

Many  elements  contribute  to  the  relative  difficulty  in  acquiring  specific  aspects  of  English  as  a foreign  language  (Goldschneider  &  DeKeyser,  2001).  Modal  auxiliary  verbs  (e.g.  could,  might), are  examples  of  a  structure  that  is  difficult  for  many  learners.  Not  only  are  they  particularly complex  semantically,  but  especially  in  the  Malaysian  context ...