When biostatistics is a neo-inductionist barrier to science

When Science Is a Family Tradition

Family efforts are commonplace in many professions. Dedication to suits united the Brooks Brothers, and enthusiasm for books brought Wiley & Sons together. In our family, it’s a passion for understanding the brain. Our parents were drawn to the subject when they realized that their own field, philosophy of mind, was uninformed by developments in neuroscience. To discover what philosophy might g...

When Is Science 'Ultimately Unreliable'?

This past October, I published an editorial (Blatt, 2015) appraising the social media phenomenon of PubPeer. I raised several issues with the Web site that I maintain do not serve the scientific community and will only entrench many of the underlying attitudes and behaviors that PubPeer claims it seeks to counter. The response tomyeditorial exceededall expectations— in 18 days it garnered 348 c...

When every $P$-flat ideal is flat

In this paper‎, ‎we study the class of rings in which every $P$-flat‎ ‎ideal is flat and which will be called $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎Von Neumann regular rings‎, ‎hereditary rings‎, ‎semi-hereditary ring‎, ‎PID and arithmetical rings are examples of $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In the context domain‎, ‎this notion coincide with‎ ‎Pr"{u}fer domain‎. ‎We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for‎...

Crossing the barrier: when the diaphragm is not a limit.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to depict the anatomic pathways along which transphrenic spread of diseases and entities can disseminate. CONCLUSION The abdomen and thorax form a continuum on which the diaphragm is an important but incomplete barrier to disease migration.

Introduction to Biostatistics