Coping with Challenges and Uncertainty in Scientific Research

Translating Geriatric Psychiatry Research into Practice: Coping with Uncertainty

CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 15, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2012 As a board member of the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry since 2006 and, more importantly, in the course of practicing inpatient geriatric psychiatry in an academic health centre since 2002, I have found a creeping nihilism and cynicism over the last five years among colleagues in general psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry tra...

Coping with Deep Uncertainty

Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty

The computational and heuristic strategies used by decision makers to manage uncertainty in complex systems originated with the early landmark contributions of J. von Neumann. These contributions took the form of artificial intelligence and artificial life concepts, and then evolved more specifically into game theory, expert systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms and evolutionary computat...

Coping with scientific misconduct.

author (which had been accepted but not yet published) that also seemed to be plagiarised. However, the author’s hospital did not respond. In another of the four cases (09-11), an editor had concerns about the ethics of a trial of a homoeopathic treatment for HIV/AIDS. The editor was concerned that patients may have been denied effective antiretroviral treatment and wanted clarification about h...

Ethics of sharing scientific and technological data: a heuristic for coping with complexity & uncertainty

Data sharing poses complex ethical questions for data management. Manifold conflicting and shifting values need to be reconciled in pursuing viable data-management policies. For example, how does one make data available in useable form to stakeholders including scientists, governments and businesses worldwide, while assuring confidentiality, satisfying one's research ethics committee, protectin...