Comments to "Electroanalytical Obscurity: An Alternative View" by Robert de Levie

Comments on Robert Reymond’s Supralapsarianism

Comments, Opinions, and Reviews An Alternative View of Heparin Anticoagulation in Acute Focal Brain Ischemia

Despite the lack of evidence of its efficacy, heparin therapy has been recommended for selected patients with ischemk stroke syndromes. However, heparin has procoagulant effects on platelet function and a propensity to produce serious side effects. When these factors are considered, heparin loses its appeal as a therapeutic agent for patients with acute focal cerebral ischemia. (Stroke 1989;20:...

Biofeedback History: An Alternative View

The tapestry of biofeedback history has been woven from many independent threads. Some contributors started with much vigor and nurtured others, and then they faded away. Yet they seeded ideas that the next generation rediscovered as their own. Others blossomed and disappeared, whereas still others have continued to actively nurture the field. Interest in biofeedback has waxed and waned in resp...

Permissive hypofiltration: an alternative view

If permissive hypercapnia is used in the context of protective ventilation for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, it must be highlighted that the alveoli in these patients are still exposed to significant stress. Similarly, early renal replacement therapy is not necessarily a protective therapy for acute kidney injury and loop diuretics are not necessarily harmful. It is conceiv...

Is There an Alternative to the Block Universe View?

This paper pursues two aims. First, to show that the block universe view, regarding the universe as a timelessly existing four-dimensional world, is the only one that is consistent with special relativity. Second, to argue that special relativity alone can resolve the debate on whether the world is three-dimensional or four-dimensional. The argument advanced in the paper is that if the world we...