Ralph Duncan Brown

Duncan Wood

Mr. Duncan Wood, formerly Consultant Surgeon to e Royal Hospital, Bristol, Cossham Memorial HosBristol, and to Bridgwater Hospital, Somerset, 'ed on July 24th, 1969, at the age of 82. He was born on September 2nd, 1886, at iCorsham, J'tshire, where his father was in General Practice. ? was educated at the Imperial Service College, ^ich was at Windsor in those days. From there he ?nt to the Lond...

Duncan Macrae

Barry Duncan

1. What exactly is an evidenced-based practice? It usually means an approach that has established itself better than placebo or treatment as usual in two clinical trials. Such demonstrations are nothing to write home about; intervention of nearly any kind has demonstrated its superiority over placebo for 50 years! This research tells us nothing that we already do not know: Treatment works. So, ...

Alexander Duncan Langmuir

Decide first. Then turn the page.

Ralph Bergmann

An assumption commonly unchallenged in Social Media isthat its open nature leads to a representative view of the world. Thereare (at least) two issues with this assumption. The first issue is that suchrepresentativeness may be harmful and may contradict social principles,e.g. non-discrimination against women or minorities. The second issue isthat algorithms that work on such...