Was Development Assistance a Mistake?

Was Development Assistance a Mistake?

William Easterly (NYU) January 2007 “More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery... For the first time in history, humanity possesses the knowledge and the skill to relieve the suffering of these people.” Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address, 1949 “We have the opportunity in the coming decade to cut world poverty by half. Billions more people could enjoy the...

Was the institutional review board system a mistake?

To the Editor—The statement by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) [1] is the keenest analysis of the institutional review board (IRB) system ever published in a medical journal. It describes a regulatory regime swamped with pointless paperwork (eg, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]), multiple IRBs making irreconcilable decisions whose inconsistency r...

Percent change was and is an embarrassing mistake.

Oops – That was a Mistake! How Toddler Brains React to Feedback

Oops, I just clicked on the wrong button on my computer (mistake) and it made this error sound that you might know. This is an example of feedback. Feedback is useful information to indicate if something was correct or wrong and we can use feedback to improve something. For example, I do not want to make the same mistake again, so now, I click on the right button! This is called feedback learni...

Recent twin earthquakes in Iran: was volunteer assistance effective?

Correspondence: Sina Zarrintan, MD Department of General Surgery Golgahst St. Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz, 51664 Iran E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] The 2012 Iranian earthquakes took place in the cities of Ahar and Varzqan in East Azerbaijan province on August 11, 2012, at 4:53 PM Tehran time. Twin earthquakes (6.4 and 6.3 on the Richter scale) stuck northwest Iran 11 mi...