Fundamental and Derivative Truths

Natural Principles and Fundamental Truths

REVIEW Microarray truths and consequences

For many, analysis of a microarray experiment starts with a spreadsheet of expression levels. While great attention is duly paid to RNA extraction, preparation and hybridization, relatively little care is devoted to extraction of expression levels from the fluorescent image. By delegating this step to a click of the mouse the exact extraction process is masked and researchers may be unwittingly...

Inaccessible truths and infinite coincidences

It is one of the salient features of an intuitionistic philosophy of mathematics that it denies the possibility that there may be infinite coincidences in mathematics: if a sentence is true, it can only be because there is a finitely expressible reason for it. The same view was expressed from a different standpoint by Hilbert in 1924 when he asserted that in mathematics there is ignorabimus. It...

Home truths from abroad.

I recently paid a visit to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. My aim was to exchange ideas about postgraduate training with the medical teachers there. Brown is one of America’s leading universities, and I saw a great deal that challenged my preconceptions about medicine in the USA, and also made me question some of our working practices in the UK. Most of my time was spent observing...

Ethical standards, truths, and lies.

ISSN: 1529-9732 (Print) 1529-9740 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wjtd20 Ethical standards, truths, and lies Bethany L. Brand PhD & Linda McEwen MA To cite this article: Bethany L. Brand PhD & Linda McEwen MA (2016) Ethical standards, truths, and lies, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 17:3, 259-266, DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2016.1114357 To link to this article: http://dx...