Telling "Miller's" Tale: A Reply to David Yassky

Reversibility and death: a reply to David J. Cole.

In this reply to David J. Cole it is argued that the medical concept of death as an irreversible phenomenon is correct and that it does not conflict with ordinary concepts of death.

David Oliver: a fairy tale mandate for the NHS.

Just after the 2010 UK election, when I was still seconded to the Department of Health, the new English health secretary, Andrew Lansley, came to meet the department’s doctors to set out his vision for the NHS. This led to the Health and Social Care Act 2012, now widely regarded as a costly and needless disruption lacking electoral mandate. Ironically, a different mandate was part of this visio...

David-Hillel Ruben’s 'Traditions and True Successors': A Critical Reply

David Malament and the Conventionality of Simultaneity: A Reply

Translational Antidote Research: A Bedside to Bench Tale

Although antidote development should proceed in an orderly fashion from observation, to experimental and safety studies, to clinical trials, this sequence is not always precisely followed. The development of fomepizole as an antidote for toxic alcohol and glycol poisoning is an example of how this may not be the case. Interest in the development of fomepizole was spurred in the 1960s. Shortly t...