New Quackery or New Clothes?

The parasite’s new clothes

A population of stems cells continuously rejuvenates the outer surface of a human parasitic flatworm.

The emperor's new clothes

bewildered by my first reading of Hans Christian Anderson's 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. It was a story book with pictures, and the emperor was drawn prancing down the street in underclothes befitting the Victorian era (I was amused to discover that in today's versions he is depicted stark naked). I was disappointed with the end of the tale, not being old enough for what is, in effect, a story ...

The emperor's new clothes.

The Berlin definition: real change or the emperor's new clothes?

e Berlin consensus group met recently after 18 years of defi ning acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) using the American European Consensus Committee (AECC) criteria because, in their words, ‘a number of issues regarding various criteria of the AECC defi nition have emerged, including a lack of explicit criteria for defi ning acute, sensitivity of PaO2/FiO2 to diff erent ventilator setti...

Replica Symmetry Breaking’s New Clothes

We present a theorem proving the impossibility of recent attempts to decouple the Replica Symmetry Breaking (RSB) picture for finite-dimensional spin glasses from the existence of many thermodynamic (i.e., infinite-volume) pure states while preserving another signature RSB feature — space filling relative domain walls between periodic and antiperiodic finite-volume states. Thus the putative not...