Why What Is Counterfactual Really Matters: A Response to Weisberg and Gopnik ()

Why Learning How to Chase Butterflies Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries

What really matters is the menopausal woman!

Yet again scientists and epidemiologists are publicly debating the controversies around the previously reported risks of HRT (hormone replacement therapy). Is this further publicity deserved? The impact of studies such as the Million Women Study (MWS)1 and Women’s Health Initiative (WHI)2 has been profound, leading to signifi cant reductions in the use of HRT. This has understandably affected m...

What matters to the patient is what really matters: 
quality in oncology nursing.

Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the Oncology Nursing Society led me to recall my own 30-plus years in nursing and how, as a new graduate nurse, almost all oncology care was delivered in the inpatient setting. In my first few years of practice, I mixed my patients' chemotherapy in a medicine room without a ventilated hood and administered those medications without personal protective equip...

What really matters

If our lives were truly horrible and the prospects of their getting better hopelessly dim, we might not want to continue. Fortunately, most people are not in such dire straights. Most of us, as we say, " want to live " (henceforth, to survive). Not only do we want to survive, but under normal, relatively favorable circumstances most of us, it seems, knows well enough what it would mean to survi...

Why Functional Programming Really Matters

The significance of functional programming is revealed as that the feasible approach to language extensibility which it enables is further applicable to programming in general and beyond. The essence of functional programming is its enablement of programmer-defined function-valued functions. The feasibility of language extension by normal programmers depends upon the exclusion of interpretation...