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BOOK REVIEW Medical Qigong: Fact or Fiction?

Fact Checking in Community Forums

Community Question Answering (cQA) forums are very popular nowadays, as they represent effective means for communities around particular topics to share information. Unfortunately, this information is not always factual. Thus, here we explore a new dimension in the context of cQA, which has been ignored so far: checking the veracity of answers to particular questions in cQA forums. As this is a...

Animal Agriculture in South Carolina : A Fact Book

Incorporating Local Knowledge into Joint Fact Finding

At its core, joint fact finding (JFF) is about bringing knowledge—usually scientific or technical— into the policy arena in the most effective way possible. The JFF approach assumes that better decisions can be made when value judgments are informed by science. Therefore, much of the focus of JFF is around knowledge produced by experts, or information provided by the scientific community. This ...

Local therapies to heal the penis: fact or fiction?

Penile rehabilitation has been an area of intense study and debate over the last decade. Interest in this topic was stimulated by the observation that erectile dysfunction remained a significant problem after radical prostatectomy despite meticulous nerve-sparing technique. Smooth muscle alterations and fibrotic changes in the penis were identified as the underlying causes of penile atrophy, ve...