De Gustibus. Should we treat them or live them in peace?

Fluoride varnishes: should we be using them?

Fluoride varnishes are fast becoming the standard of care as topical fluoride treatments. Fluoride varnishes still await approval from the FDA for use as caries preventive agents. In the meantime, their use for such purposes is considered "off-label." This article highlights the efficacy of fluoride varnishes as caries preventive agents and introduces some of the commercially available fluoride...

Urban Wildlife: Can We Live with Them?

A survey of Extension Wildlife Specialists in the U.S. provided a basis for estimating the magnitude of urban wildlife damage and control in this country. Response to the 9-question mail questionnaire was good (76 percent) following the single mailing to all Extension Wildlife Specialists or people in similar positions listed in the national directory. The majority of questions were answered ba...

Predicted values: how should we use them?

New reals: Can live with them, can live without them

Judah and Shelah [3] proved that countable support iterations of proper forcings preserve the ω-bounding property (see 2.2 here). In his book Proper and Improper Forcing [8, XVIII §3] Shelah gave several cases of general preservation theorems for proper countable support iterations (the proofs tend to be hard to digest, though). In this paper we deal with “Case A”. A simplified version of this ...

Antidepressants: can't live with them, can't live without them.

A new wave of meta-analyses suggests that antidepressants are no better than placebo for major depressive disorder (MDD), and therefore, antidepressants not only don't work, but even worse, they harm patients because of the risk of adverse effects. The authors analyzed data from all antidepressant studies submitted to the Food and Drug Administration for registration (including failed studies w...