Fact and Fable in Psychology. Joseph Jastrow

“ Fact , Fable , and Darwin ”

I write as neither a creationist nor a Darwinist, but as one who knows what is probably the most disreputable scientific secret of the past century: There is no plausible scientific theory of the origin of species! Darwin himself was not sure he had produced one, and for many decades every competent evolutionary biologist has known that he did not. Although the experts have kept quiet when true...

Trauma in Boxing; Fact or Fable?

Saturn's Kingdom; or, Fable and Fact

Moore Jessop. Pp. xiii., 294. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co. 1891. This book might well be entitled the evolution of " The great globe itself [and] all which it inherit." It begins with the mythological story of Saturn, as the son of Heaven, because the apparent motion of the starry universe is a measure of time; and as the son of Earth, because the ebbing and flowing of the sea is...

Accidental death--fact, fancy or fable.

Allergy to penicillin: fable or fact?

OBJECTIVE To assess whether, on the basis of one blood test, penicillin allergy might be excluded sufficiently for general practitioners to give oral penicillin to patients claiming a history of penicillin allergy. DESIGN Prospective study of patients referred by general practitioners. SETTING Outpatient allergy clinic in a district general hospital. PATIENTS 175 referred patients who gav...