Confusion about brain death

Sudden Infant Death or Murder? A Royal Confusion About Probabilities

In this article I criticize the recommendations of some prominent statisticians about how to estimate and compare probabilities of the repeated sudden infant death and repeated murder. The issue has drawn considerable public attention in connection with several recent court cases in the UK. I try to show that when the three components of the Bayesian inference are carefully analyzed in this con...

doubt about prediction role of s100b protein in brain death

Confusion about Hayek’s Confusion: a Response to Morison

In my article, Hayek, the Common Law, and Fluid Drive,1 I criticize the argument Friedrich Hayek presents for the “law of liberty” in the first volu m e of Law, Legislation and Liberty.2 I suggest that Hayek confuses customary law, which he refers to as “grow n” law , with modern common law, which he refers to as “ju d ge-m ad e” law , and writes as though these distinct types of law were ident...

Quorum sensing and the confusion about diffusion.

Two hypotheses, termed quorum sensing (QS) and diffusion sensing (DS), have been suggested as competing explanations for why bacterial cells use the local concentration of small molecules to regulate numerous extracellular behaviours. Here, we show that: (i) although there are important differences between QS and DS, they are not diametrically opposed; (ii) empirical attempts to distinguish bet...

Reducing confusion about post-cardiotomy delirium.

5 Cardiac surgery is one of the most common reasons for elective admission to the intensive care unit in Australia and New Zealand. Post-operative delirium (POD) is a common complication after cardiac surgery and is associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation,1-3 increased ICU4,5 and hospital lengths of stay,6,7 and possibly long-term cognitive and functional decline.8 We review the defi n...