‘MAINRITSAN2-the future’, with some doubts!

Role of synchrony in contour binding: some transient doubts sustained.

The temporal correlation hypothesis proposes that neurons signal mutual inclusion in complex features, such as extended contours, by phase-locking their firing [C. M. Gray and W. Singer, Proc. Nat]. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 1698 (1989)]. Although this hypothesis remains controversial, a number of recent psychophysical studies have suggested that temporal correlation among features can indeed promote ...

Is “Arming the Future” with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts about the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System

Reductionist Doubts

According to reductionism, every complex phenomenon can and should be explained in terms of the simplest possible entities and mechanisms. The parts determine the whole. This approach has been an outstanding success in science, but this essay will point out ways in which it could nevertheless be giving us wrong ideas and holding back progress. For example, it may be impossible to understand key...

Some Doubts About the Mantra on the Deleterious Cardiovascular Effects of Sulfonylureas.

Patients with type 2 diabetes are at increased mortality risk, mainly because of cardiovascular disease (1). On the basis of the evidence that a pharmacological approach against hypertension, dyslipidemia, and hyperglycemia is needed to tackle this devastating clinical outcome (2), such patients are usually aggressively treated. In the U.S., prescribed retail pharmaceutical spending accounted f...

Doubts , Asymmetries , and Insurance ∗

This paper studies an insurance problem where agents doubt their forecasting models. Using Hansen-Sargent multiplier preferences, these doubts are represented as sets of probability distributions that are statistically hard to discriminate. Agents differ endogenously in two aspects their forecasting models and the extent of doubts surrounding these models. This heterogeneity gives rise to a new...