Some progress, but concern remains about Namibia's desert rhinos and elephants

Why Children’s Suggestibility Remains a Serious Concern

After more than two decades of continuous contemporary research on the child as a witness in legal proceedings, a great deal is known about children’s eyewitness memory and suggestibility. Excellent reviews of this research are available, and their summaries and conclusions will not be reiterated here. Instead, this article will focus on six areas representing some of the most intractable probl...

Some early stirrings (1950 ff.) of concern about environmental mutagens.

Perhaps it would be of interest to members of the Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) to eavesdrop on my correspondence with H. J. Muller almost 50 years ago. I will, for the most part, let the letters speak for themselves, with a few brief comments and footnotes. Perhaps most remarkable is the pace of correspondence, which is a match for email today; perhaps the US Post Office was using its fa...

Concern about Wrongful Convictions

The wrongful conviction of an innocent person is the worst nightmare to anyone who cares about justice. Eighty years ago, Judge Learned Hand said, “Our procedure has always been haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream.”1 The good judge was,as events of the last decade have conclusively proved, simply wrong.Although the criminal justice system has a number of sa...

A concern about plagiarism

The Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal (biij), like all other scientific journals, is concerned with the serious issue of plagiarism. The Publications Committee of the International Organization of Medical Physics (IOMP) has prepared an editorial on plagiarism, which is reproduced here with some modifications, with permission from the IOMP. In addition, this editorial is also consisten...

"Brutacaine" vanquished, but pain remains.