Other-Sacrificing Options: Reply to Lange

Tobacco smoking: options for helping smokers to quit--reply.

BACKGROUND Although great progress has been made on tobacco control, smoking remains one of the most important causes of preventable disease and death in the Australian population. The general practice team has much to offer in helping smokers to quit. OBJECTIVE This article provides practical advice on structuring smoking cessation support in primary care using the 5As (Ask, Assess, Advise, ...

REPLY TO COMMENTARIES Confusion Infusions, Suggestives, Correctives, and Other Medicines

The authors suggest that it is natural and appropriate for fields to focus on particular phenomena and approaches. For affect, the focus has been on the subset of phenomena called emotion, with emphasis on facial expression, physiological responses, and appraisal. However, the authors note that there is a cost to the focus. The focus on facial expression has caused researchers to ignore those s...

In Reply: In reply to: "e-Iatrogenesis: The most critical consequence of CPOE and other HIT"

Replies to Sullivan and Lange

The explanatory criterion of relevance. The ordering of (possible and impossible) worlds by their closeness to actuality is determined by weighing the different similarities they have to actuality. The similarities to actuality that can make a world closer include resemblances in matters of particular fact. (A matter of particular fact is a fact about the history of the universe that is not ent...

Sacrificing dialogue for politics?

THE RECENT STATEMENT OF VIENNESE Cardinal Schönborn “clarifying” the Catholic position on evolution is disconcerting (1). Schönborn, who is a close ally of Pope Benedict XVI, declares that “evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense is not true” and that there is “overwhelming evidence for design in biology,” thus aligning the Catholic Church with the Intelligent Design movement. The strategy is fami...