Great Power Brings Great Responsibility: Some Thoughts About a Promising Approach to Standardised Data Assessment in Registry Studies

"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility".

In this issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, Schoenfeld et al. report a qualitative analysis of Shared decision-making (SDM) from the perspective of Emergency Department (ED) patients. Shared decision-making is "a collaborative process in which patients and providers make health care decisions together, taking into account the best evidence available, as well as the patient's values and prefer...

With Great Freedom for Inconsistent Data Comes Great Scalability Responsibility

Shared online databases, such as Google Fusion Tables or Quickbase, allow community members to collaboratively maintain and browse data. While users may believe in conflicting facts (due to conflicting sources, measurements or opinions), current online databases do not offer support for the management of data conflicts. Thus online databases could clearly benefit from technology for uncertain/i...

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility—A Personal Philosophy for Communicating Science in Society

Many think that communicating science is a necessary and rewarding activity. Yet finding compelling, relevant, and timely points of linkage between challenging scientific concepts and the experiences and interests of the general public can be difficult. Since science continues to influence more and more aspects of daily life and knowledge, there is a parallel need for communication about scienc...

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility? The Concept of the Responsibility To Protect Within the Process of International Lawmaking

II. EVOLUTION AND CONTENT OF THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT ............................................... 472 A. The Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001) .............................................................................................................................. 472 B. The Report of the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and...

Some Speculations About "The Great Nicaraguan Lake"