Inna Narpathil Iniyavai (Best Forty in Morals)

Reply to Inna Sokolova.

T he key argument made by Inna Sokolova in her commentary on our article is that “The peer-review system plays a key role in ensuring quality control of the published works and lending credibility to the published research”. This is of course correct. However, the real question is: who should be the peer reviewers? A handful of somewhat arbitrarily selected scientists asked by journal editors t...

Morals Matter in Economic Games

Contrary to predictions from Expected Utility Theory and Game Theory, when making economic decisions in interpersonal situations, people take the interest of others into account and express various forms of solidarity, even in one-shot interactions with anonymous strangers. Research in other-regarding behavior is dominated by behavioral economical and evolutionary biological approaches. Psychol...

Morals in Medicine1

The Hippocratic oath which I have just administered to myself before you in all solemnity—an oath which was never administered to me at any stage of my career. None of you too, I guess, has ever been subjected to this or any such oath. Although the Hippocratic oath may look out of place in our midst, the noble sentiments and high ideals expressed therein, the guiding principles for doctors arc ...

Morals and Medicine

pared to normal synovial cells. This little book reviews these and other measurements in plasma, urine, synovial fluid, tissue extracts and synovial cell culture. The chapter on hormones is notable for its statement that prednisolone is the only drug which can halt the erosive progress of rheumatoid arthritis. This is certainly not the orthodox view of most rheumatologists, and its emphasis cas...

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