Mother tongue? Muttersprache? Lingua mater? Not so fast!

Not so fast.

The Sept. 20 news release from Geneva was terse: An incident the previous day had caused ?a large helium leak? into a section of the 17-mile (27 km) circular tunnel under the French-Swiss border that is home of the world?s most powerful particle accelerator?the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. No injuries or ?risk to people? occurred, reported the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...

Bias? Not so fast.

Duran et al present the results of a literature search performed on a very large number of publications comparing methotrexate (MTX) with a biologic agent. Their literature review eventually yielded 13 published trials for their analysis. The authors were particularly interested in the dose, and route of administration, of MTX. As the efficacy of the new agent studied was being compared with MT...

Grow up? Not so fast.

Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie are friends. All of them live in Chicago. They go out three nights a week, sometimes more. Each of them has had several jobs since college; Ellen is on her 17th, counting internships, since 1996. They don’t own homes. They change apartments frequently. None of them are married, none have children. All of them are from 24 to 28 years old. Thirty...

Premature closure? Not so fast.

To cite: Dhaliwal G. BMJ Qual Saf 2017;26:87–89. Dual process theory (DPT) and the intertwined concepts of heuristics and biases, popularised by Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast and Slow, are widely discussed models for analysing decision-making processes inside and outside medicine. The basic premise of DPT is that the brain has a fast, intuitive, but occasionally error-prone system (system 1) an...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired