DEBATABLE PROBLEMS OF PHARMACOVIGILANCE

Some debatable problems on electroimpulse therapy of cardiac arrhythmias.

Are debatable scienti c questions debatable ?

Scientists often Ž nd diμ culty in engaging in formal public debate about transcientiŽ c social issues. Although science is a highly disputatious institution, public argumentation amongst scientists follows very di¶ erent conventional practices from those that rule in political and legal arenas. Amongst other di¶ erentiating features, scientiŽ c disputes are typically conducted in writing rathe...

Debatable edibles: bioengineered foods.

-We observed the growth of 2 sublines of leukaemia L1210 in histocompatible DBA2 mice given 103 cells i.p. and studied the protective effect of Corynebacterium parvum (CP). The growth of subline 1,1210 -M was unaffected by pretreatment with CP or admixture with 105 peritoneal cells (PC) from CP-treated mice. In contrast, the growth of subline L1210-C was inhibited; CP pretreatment increased the...

Implications of reduction mammaplasty: a debatable issue.

TO THE EDITOR: The article by Neto et al entitled “Self-Esteem and Functional Capacity Outcomes Following Reduction Mammaplasty” (Aesthetic Surg J 2008;28:417–420) addresses a subject of great interest, as indicated by the many studies in the literature focusing on this topic. It seems that one could predict with relative certainty that an increase in self-esteem and functional capacity would b...

Linguistically debatable or just plain wrong?

In linguistic annotation projects, we typically develop annotation guidelines to minimize disagreement. However, in this position paper we question whether we should actually limit the disagreements between annotators, rather than embracing them. We present an empirical analysis of part-of-speech annotated data sets that suggests that disagreements are systematic across domains and to a certain...