Donald Ainslie Henderson

Donald Ainslie (D. A.) Henderson, MD, MPH (1928–2016) Smallpox Eradication: Leadership and Legacy

It was said in ancient Greece that when Aeschines spoke the crowd uttered, “What a great orator,” but when Demosthenes spoke they shouted, “Let us march!” Donald Ainslie (D. A. since childhood) Henderson became commanding general of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme in October 1966. To many of the more than 150 000 pox-warriors who marched until ...

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In 1983, Popper and Miller published in Nature a new argument against inductive probability. There followed, the next year, a discussion of the validity of the argument in the pages of the same journal involving Good, Jeffrey, and Levi as well as Popper and Miller themselves. This has led in turn to still further discussions of the argument. Those who are critical include Redhead (1985) and Dun...

Donald Monro (1727–1802)

George Ainslie ( 2001 ) Breakdown * of * Will . Cambridge : Cambridge University

* Breakdown* of*Will is presented as a model of decision making that is based on two interrelated phenomena, “hyperbolic discounting” and “intertemporal bargaining”. These are interesting phenomena, and I would have enjoyed reading about them in a theoretical review paper, but they did not make for a good book about decision making. The phenomena are not actually linked together into a coherent...