Much ado about religion: Religiosity, resource loss, and support for political violence

Much ado about religion: Religiosity, resource loss, and support for political violence.

The association between religion and violence has raised much interest in both academic and public circles. Yet on the individual level, existing empirical accounts are both sparse and conflicting. Based on previous research which found that religion plays a role in the support of political violence only through the mediation of objective and perceived deprivations, the authors test Conservatio...

Much ado about nothing?

I t all started with the submission of an unsolicited review on idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis by IOACHIMESCU et al. [1]. During the review process of this excellent manuscript, the idea evolved to launch a whole series on rare (orphan) interstitial lung disorders in the European Respiratory Journal. Why bother? Well, admittedly, these diseases are rare, but for the affected patient that d...

Much ado about nothing?

Much Ado about Nogo

Three proteins in mature myelin (Nogo, MAG, and OMgp) have been purported to be critical in causing both regenerative failure and minimal sprouting after CNS injury. However, the role of this repulsive trio in vivo has been controversial. Lee et al., in this issue of Neuron, provide evidence that genetically deleting all three major myelin inhibitors either singly or all together does not resul...

Much ado about nothing.