Critique et réflexion

Rousseau and Criticism Rousseau et la Critique

[Réflexion sur la médecine familiale].

Dernièrement, j’ai assisté à une séance dans le cadre du 24e Cours annuel de médecine en régions rurales et éloignées présenté par la Société de la Médecine Rurale du Canada, à Charlevoix (Québec), où le Dr Louis Francescutti a éloquemment présenté une plénière sur la prestation de soins palliatifs de haute qualité aux patients. Lors de la séance, il a lancé aux participants le défi de réfléchi...

A STATISTICAL CRITIQUE OF THE WITZTUM et al PAPER

This paper examines whether the significance test described in the paper Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis by Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg was carried out in accordance with accepted procedure, and whether the distance metric used accomplishes its stated purpose. In the light of that examination, it appears that the conclusion of the paper is unfounded.

Mosaic Brains? A Methodological Critique of Joel et al. (2015)

In their recent and widely publicized paper, Joel et al. (2015) made two main empirical claims. First, they claimed that the brains of individual males and females show very little internal consistency in their combination of " male-typical " and " female-typical " features, e.g.: " Our results demonstrate that even when analyses are restricted to a small number of brain regions (or connections...

Les Approches Économiques De La Précaution : Présentation Et Discussion Critique

Economic approaches to precaution: a critical presentation. The precautionary principle is well known nowadays. But does it have an economic foundation? We present two theories of precaution. The first is based on the standard model of expected utility with a Bayesian belief revision. The second is based on ambiguity aversion. We discuss the advantages as well as the weaknesses of these two app...