Less Must Do More

How to do more with less?

Do more guns cause less crime?

The main argument of a recent book by John Lott is summarized in the title: More Guns, Less Crime [26]. There are three parts to this argument: 1. that there were more guns 2. that there was less crime 3. that more guns caused less crime Lott’s argument depends on all three parts being true. If any one of the parts is incorrect, the entire argument fails. In fact, as I will show in the next thr...

Making Less Do More at NASA.

William T. Golden Treasurer Richard S. Nicholson Executive Officer John Abelson Frederick W. Alt Don L. Anderson Stephen J. Benkovic David E. Bloom Floyd E. Bloom Henry R. Bourne James J. Bull Kathryn Calame C. Thomas Caskey Dennis W. Choi John M. Coffin Bruce F. Eldridge Paul T. Englund Richard G. Fairbanks Douglas T. Fearon Harry A. Fozzard Victor R. Fuchs Theodore H. Geballe Margaret J. Gell...

Global tuberculosis partnership says industrialized world must do more.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled a new blueprint to halve the 1.8 million deaths caused by tuberculosis (TB) each year but says it needs an additional US$14 billion from industrialized world over the next five years to achieve that target. The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011 — 2015: Transforming the Fight — Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis, announced simultaneously at the World H...

Acute exacerbation in COPD: we must do more.

If one asks medical students which emergencies they hold as especially important in internal medicine, more than 90% first mention myocardial infarction and stroke. This is not surprising, because these diseases occupy the first places in the mortality statistics contained in the Global Burden of Disease report [1]. Nevertheless, respiratory failure is only described as rare, despite the fact t...