Fair or foul?

British Columbia's PharmaCare Program: fair or foul?

and colleagues present a rigorous and comprehensive examination of pharmacare policy in British Columbia, specifically the introduction of co-payments for seniors in 2002, followed by an income-based " Fair PharmaCare " Program in 2003. Fair PharmaCare achieved its primary objective of reducing public expenditures on pharmaceuticals – an unsurprising accomplishment. Although politically hazardo...

The screening review system: fair or foul?

Fish or foul?

Multi-locus genotype analyses, which have been widely used to assign individuals to the particular populations they are most likely to have originated from, have come to the aid of suspicious fishing competition judges in Finland. When presented with an unusually large salmon the judges were concerned that the 5.5 kg specimen may have come from the local fishmonger and not the competition lake....

No Intent , No Foul ?

Many commentators have criticized current anti-discrimination law on the grounds that it does not adequately prohibit unconscious bias in employment decisions. That claim is wrong: Unconscious bias is fully actionable, and it can generally be proved by knowledgeable employment lawyers. The idea behind unconscious bias is that well-meaning employers and supervisors, who would likely consider the...

Does fortune foul fidelity?

Kenneth Kipnis hypothesizes that a company paying a physician for services related to one of its products merits a share of responsibility for harmful outcomes (Kipnis 2011). His arguments fail because they are based on a widely held but false assumption and onmisleading analogies. The false assumption is that industry payments to physicians results in harm to patients. Misleading analogies app...