The One Thing Clear About Buttonholes, is that Nothing is Clear About Buttonholes

Is everything clear about Tako-tsubo syndrome?

INTRODUCTION Tako-tsubo syndrome is a novel cardio-vascular disease affecting predominantly postmenopausal women exposed to unexpected strong emotional or physical stress, in the absence of significant coronary heart disease. It is characterized by acute onset of severe chest pain and/or acute left ventricular failure, ECG-changes, typical left ventricular angiographic findings, good prognosis ...

Nothing is as Clear as Unclear: Iivari's response

Nanotechnology: the next big thing, or much ado about nothing?

Nanotechnology encompasses an increasingly sophisticated ability to manipulate matter at the nanoscale, resulting in new materials, products and devices that demonstrate new and unusual behaviour. While emerging nanotechnologies have great potential for good, there are increasing concerns that the selfsame attributes that make them attractive will also lead to new risks to human health. Researc...

Critical Notice Getting Clear about Equivocal Concepts

Just how far can externalism go? In this exciting new book Ruth Millikan explores a radically externalist treatment of empirical concepts. For the last thirty years philosophy of mind’s ties to meaning internalism have been loosened. The theory of content has swung uncomfortably on its moorings in a fickle current, straining against opposing ties to mind and world. In this book Millikan casts c...

Observational Studies: Getting Clear about Transparency

The PLOS Medicine Editors endorse four measures to ensure transparency in the analysis and reporting of observational studies. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.