Whistleblowers at risk as science fails to correct itself

Whistleblowers.

T he term whistleblower comes from the phrase ‘‘blow the whistle’’, which refers to a whistle being blown by a policeman or a referee to indicate an activity that is illegal or a foul [1]. Recently, whistleblowers have disseminated valuable information to the community through new media outlets, such as WikiLeaks. In medicine, whistleblowers serve to shed light on side-effects of drugs and, occ...

Psychology: Science in spite of itself.

rather than obviate, human creativity. In Deep Thinking, Kasparov also delves into the renaissance of machine learning, an AI subdomain focusing on generalpurpose algorithms that learn from data. He highlights the radical differences between Deep Blue and AlphaGo, a learning algorithm created by my company DeepMind to play the massively complex game of Go. Last year, AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol,...

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Recombinant factor VIIa fails to correct coagulopathy induced by haemodilution with colloid.

Editor—In recent years, numerous single case reports and a few series of retrospective cohorts of patients have been published dealing with serious bleeding and massive transfusion demands in whom recombinant activated factor VII concentrate (rFVIIa) has been tried as salvage therapy. In the absence of controlled clinical studies, practice has arisen in many places where rFVIIa has been adopted...

Protecting Whistleblowers By Contract