Empirical Legal Research: Fad, Feud or Fellowship?

Hypoglycemia, Fact or Fad

With unwarranted enthusiasm, the popular press has embraced hypoglycemia as an explanation for a host of physical ailments. Although this has permitted purveyors of numerous "treatments" to do a brisk business, very little helpful and accurate information has been communicated about hypoglycemia. Lynn Bennion, a Stanford-based clinician, has written a book that provides the general public acces...

FCC's Broadband Quartet: A State-Federal Fugue or Feud?

The states care about broadband. California and Kentucky regulators have developed creative legal theories to extend their jurisdiction to regulate broadband services. The Colorado, Washington, and Michigan legislatures, among others, created incentive programs to promote broadband investment within their states. And municipalities themselves are getting into the business of providing broadband...

Sensory integration: fact or fad.

Sensory integration more and more is becoming the panacea for many occupational therapists who treat a variety of disabilities and dysfunctions. The popularity of this treatment method is growing rapidly and was emphasized by Hightower-Vandamm in 1980. She noted that, in the early '70s, 90 percent of her students wanted to work in physical dysfunction and that presently 90 percent wish to work ...

Sherwood’s Plot: Fundamental or Empirical?

There are several examples of heuristic rules first proposed from empirical observation, which eventually earned physicochemical validity after the fundamental derivation of a posteriori. This may be the case of Sherwood’s plot – for which a sound rationalization from first principles, entailing enthalpy and mass balances, is provided here; it applies to (fine) chemicals undergoing concentr...

Conformity in nonhuman primates: fad or fact?