Returning Results: Let's Be Honest!

Honest Intentions, Problematic Results: Sexual Identity Therapy

As support for sexual reorientation therapy—the practice of trying to change an individual’s sexual orientation—has lulled1, various therapists have been faced with the question of how to effectively and respectfully counsel their religious clients who are at odds with their sexual orientation. They appear to be faced with two options, a sexuality affirming approach and a newer approach known a...

Be Honest with Me: An Exploration of Lies in Relationships

David Oliver: Choosing to be honest about patient choice.

Henry Ford said in 1909 about his Model T car, “You can have any colour you like, so long as it’s black.” He wanted the first mass produced, no frills car to be affordable to ordinary families. They lapped it up: sales grew exponentially for 20 years. The NHS was founded with similar spirit and results. A basic, universal offer minus deluxe customised features, it was a godsend to many previous...

Lethal Injection: Let's Be Honest about the Death Penalty

Muin J. Khoury, Julian Little, Julian Higgins, John P. A. Ioannidis, Marta Gwinn We applaud PLoS editors for their commitment to publishing high-quality systematic reviews (SRs) [1]. Moher et al. [2] clearly documented the inconsistent quality of reporting of SRs. With more than 2,500 SRs published every year, low-quality or outdated reviews may mislead researchers, providers, and policy makers...

Constructability of Trip-lets

A trip-let is an object as shown on the cover of Hofstadter’s book Gödel, Escher, Bach: a solid, threedimensional object that, when viewed from three orthogonal directions, shows three different letters. In this paper we consider two problems related to the construction of such objects for a given set of three letters. First, we want to know whether the silhouettes of the object correspond to t...