Validating pharmaceutical product claims: questions a formulary committee should ask

Sudden infant death syndrome: what questions should we ask?

A limited historical perspective can affect the questions we pose about the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) issue. Evidence is presented from the literature that the SIDS rate in Western countries was low prior to World War II and peaked in the 1980s. An analogy is drawn with the trends in the prevalence of some infectious diseases, and questions are posed from the perspective of a bacteria...

Radiation from cardiac imaging tests: questions you should ask.

Questions Children Ask

Mrs. Chaloner approves the modern manner of answering difficult questions simply and honestly, but warns against perplexing children by giving them more facts than they want, or can use at a particular stage of understanding. Throughout the book she gives examples of the differences in interest and meaning which the same question may have to the two, three, four, and five year old child. The na...

Chairman of the Joint Formulary Committee, British National Formulary.

Deriving and Validating Kripkean Claims

Saul Kripke has advanced interesting metaphysical and semantic claims that have strong appeal and engender conviction. In some cases, Kripke suggests that these claims constitute only a ‘picture’ rather than a theory, while in others, it is clear that the claims in question constitute a (formally) precise theory. In the former case, it is important to determine whether one can turn the picture ...