There is no Such Thing as a Child

There is no Such Thing as Attention

Given that the core issues of attention research have been recognized for millenia, we do not know as much about attention as we should. I argue that the reasons for this failure are (1) we create spurious dichotomies, (2) we reify attention, treating it as a cause, when it is an effect, and (3) we equate a collection of facts with a theory. In order to correct these errors, we need a new techn...

There is no such thing as a product

How do you manage, or even think seriously about, profitability in an online business? Traditionally you tracked profitability by product, but in the online world this may simply not be possible. The article looks at why this is so, and how the same factors which create the problem also create new opportunities. Learned Publishing (2002)15, 113–116 Alastair Dryburgh There is no such thing as a ...

There is no such thing as a child receiving 'a good smack'.

Maybe there is no such thing as bronchiolitis.

Viral bronchiolitis is the most common reason for infants to be admitted to hospital,1,2 yet we seem powerless to do much about it. Physicians who have been in practice for 30 years or more have ridden the rollercoaster of optimism following the publication of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on bronchiolitis showing the efficacy of bronchodilators, steroids, hypertonic saline and so on, onl...

Why is There Still Racism if There is No Such Thing as "Race"?

This presidential address is keyed to the exhibition "All of Us Are Related, Each of Us Is Unique." It reveals that there are no biological barriers between the 5.7 billion human beings that today inhabit the earth. We all have the same ancestors and the genetic diversity of contemporary human populations reflects the paths followed by our ancestors in the course of human migrations over the pa...