Has the melanoma information tsunami become a maelstrom?

Reasoning has become a luxury

It is being talked about all over the world; an editorial in the Economist of 19 October 2013 entitled " How Science Goes Wrong " reports a dramatic decline in the quality of scientific publications. Research has changed the world, now it needs to change itself, the subheading reads. The detailed report is based on facts which are difficult to disprove; an example being a Harvard biologist, Joh...

Has screening mammography become obsolete?

Has the UK really become iodine sufficient?

The OECD Blue Book has become a citation classic.

One of the highest accolades a scientist can achieve is to have a paper selected by the Science Citation Index of the Philadelphia Library as the most cited paper of the year. There can be no doubt that the Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations, published by the OECD in 1986, and known as the Blue Book after the color of the cover, is the resource document most frequently cited at the internati...

Has the ―machinery of Death‖ Become a Clunker?

By the mid-1990s, the ―machinery of death‖ was not only working, but in fact, humming. 2 Year after year, hundreds of additional persons were added to death row, and the number of executions climbed to heights not seen in many decades. 3 In 1994 alone, 315 new death sentences were imposed—a record never exceeded, and matched only once (in 1996), after executions resumed in 1976 following Furman...