Why the Term “Carrier Screening” Should Not Be Abandoned

The Fundamental Reasons Why Laptop Computers should not be Used on Your Lap

As a tendency to use new technologies, gadgets such as laptop computers are becoming more popular among students, teachers, businessmen and office workers. Today laptops are a great tool for education and learning, work and personal multimedia. Millions of men, especially those in the reproductive age, are frequently using their laptop computers on the lap (thigh). Over the past several years, ...

Why Sex Chromatin Should Be Abandoned as a Screening Method for "gender Verification" of Female Athletes

• • This paper explains how the screening of female athletes by sex chromatin, practised by most sports organizations, often does not reveal Ihe categories of individuals who should not be allowed to compete in wotrwn's events, while it excludes other individuals who have "abriorrtuiT' .sex chromatin but should be allowed lo compete in these evenis. Sirue this melhod can be considered a near un...

Should chelation therapy be abandoned ?

Why we should not be postmodernists

I wish to defend two claims in this paper. My first claim has two parts. First, I argue that there is a physical and social world out there which exists in a way that is independent of how we, as observers, represent it. In this sense, there is an objective reality. Following John Searle, I call this the claim of external realism. Note that this is an ontological claim. It says nothing about wh...

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis should be abandoned.

A leading idea about how disturbances and other environmental fluctuations affect species diversity is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH). The IDH states that diversity of competing species is, or should be expected to be, maximized at intermediate frequencies and/or intensities of disturbance or environmental change. I argue that the IDH has been refuted on both empirical and theore...