Science! Why should the clinician care?

Litigation-Generated Science: Why Should We Care?

BACKGROUND In a 1994 Ninth Circuit decision on the remand of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Judge Alex Kosinski wrote that science done for the purpose of litigation should be subject to more stringent standards of admissibility than other science. OBJECTIVES We analyze this proposition by considering litigation-generated science as a subset of science involving conflict of int...

Ecohydrology--why hydrologists should care.

Ataxia telangiectasia: why should the ERS care?

Affiliations: Nottingham Children’s Hospital, UK Paediatric National Clinic, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK. Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK. Dept of Paediatrics, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Amalia Children’s Hospital, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Rare Diseases Service and Pediatric Neurology Unit, Edmond...

Why the postmodern attitude towards science should be denounced.

After the perhaps naive optimism surrounding science during the post-war period, there has been a clear backlash fuelled by widening scientific illiteracy and fears about nuclear war, environmental degradation and so on. These fears have found fertile ground in the general anti-expert, anti-establishment sentiments that have increased in the past decades, and on which several civic movements ha...

Eosinophils in COPD: why should I care?

1. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil. What defines a disease? Intuitively, it is very simple to differentiate between disease and health, but it is surprisingly difficult to define what “disease” is. Physicians are extensively trained to recognize signs and symptoms in patients and to attr...