The Question Is Peril

Is C. Pneumoniae Research in Peril?

Chlamydia pneumoniae is an obligate intra-cellular parasite which infects mucosal surfaces of the human respiratory tract causing sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Although the bacterium causes acute disease, mildly symptomatic, asymptomatic, or unrecognized infections are most common (Kuo et al., 1995). C. pneumoniae infections are widespread among children 5–14 years of age a...

The Peril of Vehemence

Peril in the pink

awareness of the plight of this unique habitat. The Swiss photographer, Thomas Marent, has spent his adult life seeking out the spectacular beauty of the most striking plants and creatures. Tackling everything from poor light to predatory animals, biting insects, invisible diseases and intense humidity, Marent has ventured through rainforests from Costa Rica and Peru to Borneo, Sulawesi and Aus...

Projects: that is the question.

“Practicing for learning” is the basic rule of teaching. An apprentice in automobile mechanics, for instance, must get his/her hands dirty with grease from the very first day. Nobody has him/her sit at a desk and listen to a teacher’s speech. Such a rule, though usual at technical schools, is not common at other schools or in universities, where the old traditional motto is still strong: “Tell ...

Is representativeness the right question?

1. Rothman KJ, Gallacher JEJ, Hatch EE. Why representativeness should be avoided. Int J Epidemiol 2013;42:1012–14. 2. Rothman KJ, Gallacher JEJ, Hathc EE. Rebuttal: when it comes to scientific inference, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Int J Epidemiol 2013;42:1026–28. 3. Jöckel KH, Stang A. Cohort studies with low baseline response may not be generalisable to populations with different expos...