Not a Placebo, but Is It Effective?

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Computer Security is Not a Science ( but it should be )

Security research is sometimes referred to as the “Humanities of Computer Science” because, too frequently, “secure” systems are built using equal measures of folklore and black arts. Despite the humorous intention, there is a kernel of truth in this jest— computer security, at least “security in the large”, is not currently a science. This claim may seem unfair, given the progress made in secu...

It is an organ, it is new, but it is not a new organ. Conceptualizing language from a homological perspective

It is a widely shared opinion among specialists that language is an evolutionary innovation, or that it contains some key evolutionary innovations. However, such claims are not based on a correspondingly consensual concept of “evolutionary innovation,” but are rather expressed on atheoretical grounds. This fact has thus far acted as an obstacle for the collaborative effort upon which the task o...

health communication what it is and what is not

When it looks like familial hypercholesterolemia...but is not.