Two letters to Kurt Goldstein

Two Ross-Manson Letters

The full story of Sir Ronald Ross' ever memorable discovery with regard to the transmission of malaria is ?old in his Memoirs, a book which every research worker in medicine should read. The Memoirs. however, are now being supplemented by publication of (he original letters and documents concerned, by the Ross Institute. As only one of the above four publications is marked with a price, we take...

Two Moments in the Philosophical Life of Kurt Gödel Juliette

We examine two sets of Gödel’s writings, from the very beginning of his philosophical life, and from the end of it, to wit: some remarks from the introduction to his 1929 thesis, written when Gödel was 22 years of age; we will also take up some remarks Gödel made about the Euthyphro, one of the so-called “Socratic” dialogues of Plato, in the course of a discussion with the proof theorist Sue To...

Kurt Weichselberger's Contribution to Imprecise Probabilities

Kurt Weichselberger, one of the influential senior members of the imprecise probability community, passed away on February 7, 2016. Almost throughout his entire academic life the major focus of his research interest has been on the foundations of probability and statistics. The present article is a first attempt to trace back chronologically the development of Weichselberger’s work on interval ...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

A tale of two letters.

We recently co-published an editorial stating that we and our sister journals would not publish tobacco-funded research. There have been a number of responses. 3 Richard Smith challenged us to explain why the same ban was not applied to Pharma-funded studies, given the degree of turpitude frequently clinging to that industry. The answer is that, whereas at least some of the actions of big Pharm...