Corrections of Misleading Statements

Smoke and mirrors: unanswered questions and misleading statements obscure the truth about organ sources in China.

This response refutes the claim made in a recent article that organs for transplantation in China will no longer be sourced from executed prisoners. We identify ongoing ethical problems due to the lack of transparent data on current numbers of transplants in China; implausible and conflicting claims about voluntary donations; and obfuscation about who counts as a voluntary donor. The big unansw...

Keeping Mud off the Bench: the First Amendment and Regulation of Candidates’ False or Misleading Statements in Judicial Elections

In the last fifty years, perhaps no facet of American constitutional democracy has changed more than campaigns for judicial office. Judicial elections long stood in sharp contrast to elections for executive, legislative, or administrative office. In keeping with the judicial role of impartial adjudicator, judicial candidates historically avoided political controversy and campaigned on “polite p...

Misleading Reference

We just became aware that the article [1] published in Entropy 2009 contains a false reference. From the list of references in [1] one gets the impression that the manuscript [2] has been accepted for publication in the journal Biophyical Chemestry. We have contacted the editors of that journal and they could tell us that [2] is a rejected manuscript, which is also the reason why the manuscript...

Additions and Corrections

Quranic Statements

“The state of being plain” is one of the features of the Holy Quran, taken as indicative of Quran’s expressiveness and clearness regarding its intentions. However, one of the aspects of Quranic miracles is its expressive miracle based on which verses have been revealed according to suitability and appropriateness of situation in an explicit and succinct form. In order to have a desirable unders...