Socrates on Drugs: The Controversy over Cognitive Enhancement

On the controversy over tailweight of distributions

Although understanding tail behavior of distributions is important in many areas, such as telecommunications network analysis and .nance, there is considerable controversy about distinctions between exponential-type and power-type tails. This paper explains why the distinctions are surprisingly di2cult for popular methods in the literature, and why particularly large samples are needed for clea...

The Controversy Over Orthomolecular Therapy

Introduction Seventeen years ago, experimental results were published which showed that vitamin B3, used in combination with electroconvulsive therapy, was strikingly effective in the treatment of acute schizophrenia. Over the following few years a specific treatment method evolved which included vitamins B3 and C in amounts much greater than are usually used to treat vitamin deficiencies. This...

The Controversy over Recovered Memories

The authors discuss 4 issues in this commentary: (a) the assumptions and evidence used to support the case for dissociated and recovered memories (noting that the evidence is weak and the assumptions internally inconsistent as well as contradictory to a mass of experimental evidence about human memory); (b) the process by which dissociated memories are said to be recovered (events that were ori...

Controversy over BCG Vaccination

Controversy over BCG Vaccination