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Margaret McCartney: politicians: if you love the NHS then set it free from your non-evidence based meddling.

The leaders of all UK political parties profess great love for the NHS. Everyone has ideas about its weaknesses and how to fix them. Many political commentators see the service as key to the imminent general election: it’s the closest thing we have to a national religion, which—at least in public—we all agree to believe in. Danny Boyle’s dancing nurses at the Olympics’ opening ceremony gave us ...

TICI: if you are not confused, then you are not paying attention.

If an IRDAM journal is what you choose, then sequential results are what you use.

Sequential results? IRDAM journals? Both of these entities really exist, and both are relevant to how results are reported for some types of studies. How and when they apply become clearer if we start with a refresher on the organization of the scientific paper. An earlier article in this series (1 ) introduced the IMRAD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion), a standard set in...

Even if after If then conditionals

This study evaluates how people represent “even if” conditionals when they have to integrate them with previous “if then” conditionals and also make an inference. The terms in the premises were ordered to facilitate their integration (Figure 1: If A then B; Even if B C). In half the cases, the “even if” conditional was expressed with a negation instead of an affirmation (If A then B; Even if no...

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