The definition of entrepreneurship: is it less complex than we think?

11 Climate Change: Is It More Predictable Than We Think?

Is the Standard of Care What We Think It Is?

For the most part, gynecologists are actually unaware of the issues involving surrogate versus quality of life outcomes, the "deceptive practice of medicine" and the true incidence of complications as they relate to the standard of care. An anonymous survey of 1958 practicing gynecologists attending seven national symposia revealed a significant number of unreported complications. Clearly, the ...

The neural evidence for simulation is weaker than I think you think it is

Simulation theory accounts of mind-reading propose that the observer generates a mental state that matches the state of the target and then uses this state as the basis for an attribution of a similar state to the target. The key proposal is thus that mechanisms that are primarily used online, when a person experiences a kind of mental state, are then co-opted to run Simulations of similar stat...

Roll-your-own tobacco use among Canadian youth: is it a bigger problem than we think?

BACKGROUND Despite the apparent decline in the popularity of roll-your-own (RYO) cigarettes over the past few decades, RYO tobacco products are widely available and used by a substantial number of adult smokers. Considering research has yet to examine the prevalence of RYO tobacco use among youth populations, this manuscript examines the prevalence of RYO tobacco use and factors associated with...

Distal protection: maybe less than you think.

Distal protection devices appear seductively simple, elegant, and beneficial to both physicians and patients. Why would you not want to use something called “distal protection?” To not use “distal protection” during carotid angioplasty and stent placement (CAS) sounds irresponsible, like not practicing “safe sex.” In a simple world, distal protection devices would do exactly what their name imp...