Fighting misinformation in seismology: Expert opinion on earthquake facts vs. fiction

CCD vs. CMOS: Facts and Fiction

past five years of the potential for CMOS imagers and of the impending demise of the incumbent image-sensing technology, CCDs. Strong claims by the proponents of a resurgent CMOS technology have been countered by equally forceful claims by CCD defenders. In a pattern typical of battling technologies (both with significant merits but also lacking maturity in some regards), users have become leer...

Expert opinion vs. empirical evidence

Expert opinion is often sought by government regulatory agencies when there is insufficient empirical evidence to judge the safety implications of a course of action. However, it can be reckless to continue following expert opinion when a preponderance of evidence is amassed that conflicts with this opinion. Factual evidence should always trump opinion in prioritizing the information that is us...

Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology

Facts and recommendations about total homocysteine determinations: an expert opinion.

BACKGROUND Measurement of plasma total homocysteine has become common as new methods have been introduced. A wide range of disorders are associated with increased concentrations of total homocysteine. The purpose of this review is to provide an international expert opinion on the practical aspects of total homocysteine determinations in clinical practice and in the research setting and on the r...

Scientific Facts Versus Media Misinformation

There are two intentional difference between this version of the article and the original published version. First, the original published version contains an error in Figure 2 which was inadvertently introduced during the editing process. Specifically, the sign of the condom use/HIV correlation was reversed. This electronic version of the article contains the correct version of Figure 2. Secon...