Water woes in Senegal's holy city

Water woes in Senegal's holy city.

Milwaukee's water woes.

The present edition of the British Journal of Cancer contains an article by Stanton et al. on the prognostic significance of DNA ploidy and S-phase analysis in breast cancer. Insofar as hardly a week goes by without a similar manuscript appearing for review, the decision to publish this paper could be questioned, especially as it reports largely negative findings. In this Editorial I would like...

Holy springs and holy water: underestimated sources of illness?

Use of holy springs and holy water is inherent in religious activities. Holy spring water is also used extensively for personal drinking water, although not assessed according to drinking water standards. Holy water in churches and chapels may cause infections via wetting of lips and sprinkling on persons. Our aim was to assess the microbiological and chemical water quality of holy springs and ...

Williamson's Woes

This is a reply to Timothy Williamson’s paper ‘Tennant’s Troubles’. It defends against Williamson’s objections the anti-realist’s knowability principle based on the author’s ‘local’ restriction strategy involving Cartesian propositions, set out in The Taming of the True. Williamson’s purported Fitchian reductio, involving the unknown number of books on his table, is analyzed in detail and shown...

Trial news: woes, new approaches.

Tomm40 has created a stir in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research with the recent proposal that variablelength polymorphisms of this gene, which lives near apolipoprotein E (ApoE) on chromosome 19, can help predict at what age a person may develop late-onset AD (LOAD) [1,2]. This finding came from analysis of several small cohorts in which ages of LOAD onset were determined retrospectively. Now, n...