Reply to King and Stover

Reply to King and Stover.

TO THE EDITOR—We appreciate the response of King and Stover [1] to our recent article [2]. The authors bring up the important issue of piperacillin-tazobactam and its association with positive serum galactomannan index assays due to the presence of antigenic epitopes in many branded preparations. In our report, we did not comment on the use of branded or generic piperacillin-tazobactam in our p...

Fire ants are drivers of biodiversity loss: a reply to King and Tschinkel (2013)

K A T H A R I N E L . S T U B L E,1 L A C Y D . C H I C K,1 M A R I A N O A . R O D R I G U E Z C A B A L,2 J E A N P H I L I P P E L E S S A R D3 and N A T H A N J . S A N D E R S1 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.A., 2Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and 3Quebec Centre for Biodiversity S...

Discussion Notes THE RANDIAN ARGUMENT RECONSIDERED: A REPLY TO CHARLES KING

C RITICAL DISCUSSIONS of the ideas of the philosopher/novelist Ayn Rand are often most interesting, especially in what they say about the critic and about Rand's relation to today's philosophical orthodoxy. In "Life and the Theory of Value," J. Charles King continues the criticism of Rand's ethics undertaken by Robert Nozick in his article, "On the Randian Argument."' Nozick's critique was exam...

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