Silicone breast implantation: doubts about the fears

Doubts about dementia diagnoses.

Doubts about quantal analysis.

TO THE EDITOR: In an impressive series of articles, Korn and co-workers (e.g., Faber and Korn 1988; Faber et al. 1992, 1995; Korn et al. 1981, 1982, 1987; reviews in Korn and Faber 1991, 2005) described electrophysiological recordings performed on goldfish Mauthner cells and adjacent inhibitory interneurons. In their founding article, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, Korn and collea...

Appreciating doubts about HIV medicine

Received 25 September 2015; Accepted 6 November 2015; Published 8 December 2015 Copyright: – 2015 Newman CE; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium...

Microscopic Polyangiitis following Silicone Exposure from Breast Implantation

We describe a case of a patient who developed microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) in the setting of exposure to silicone after breast implantation. A 57-year-old Hispanic woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever, cough, and hemoptysis. She had undergone silicone breast implantation two years prior to presentation. She was diagnosed as having microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) based on...

Doubts about ‘uncertainty without All the Doubt’

Call the following the storage hypothesis : degreed beliefs are stable attitudes of agents that can be appealed to for predicting and explaining patterns of behavior, judgment, and decision making. [1] the storage hypothesis is that humans have, or it is as if we have, degrees of belief, and our judgment and decision making across a wide range of situations is systematically predicted by them (...