Lying, Misleading, and Fairness

Lying and Deception Lying and Self-deception

Questions about truthfulness occur in many contexts—when parents ask their children if they are using recreational drugs, when an employer ask applicants about the reasons they left their last job, when international leaders consider each others’ threats or promises, when voters evaluate candidates’ promises, when physicians consider a patient’s complaint, when at the start of a romantic encoun...

Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy

All societies face the need to make judgments about what interventions (both public health and personal medical) to provide to their populations under reasonable resource constraints. Their decisions should be informed by good evidence and arguments from health technology assessment (HTA). But if HTA restricts itself to evaluations of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness, it risks being vie...

Correction: Expanded HTA: Enhancing Fairness and Legitimacy

Misleading Reference

We just became aware that the article [1] published in Entropy 2009 contains a false reference. From the list of references in [1] one gets the impression that the manuscript [2] has been accepted for publication in the journal Biophyical Chemestry. We have contacted the editors of that journal and they could tell us that [2] is a rejected manuscript, which is also the reason why the manuscript...

Fairness, Computable Fairness, and Randomness