You Haven’t Taught Until They Have Learned

Unlearning What You Have Learned

When Bayesians set out to model rational constraints on the ways agents’ degrees of belief evolve over time, they usually start by stipulating that the agents they are modeling never forget information. But Frank Arntzenius has shown that there can be substantive constraints on the relation between an agent’s degrees of belief at two times even if the agent has forgotten some relevant informati...

Multiethnic lupus cohorts: what have they taught us?

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous multisystemic autoimmune disease of unknown etiology of variable course and outcome. It affects predominantlywomen (9:1) on their reproductive age years but can occur at the extremes of life (from infants to nonagenarians). In older adults the disease is not very severe, yet because it occurs in persons who may already have other comorbiditi...

Until they have faces: the ethics of facial allograft transplantation.

The ethical discussion of facial allograft transplantation (FAT) for severe facial deformity, popularly known as facial transplantation, has been one sided and sensationalistic. It is based on film and fiction rather than science and clinical experience. Based on our experience in developing the first IRB approved protocol for FAT, we critically discuss the problems with this discussion, which ...

Physician Payment Reform: Early Innovators Share What They Have Learned

Inherited cardiac arrhythmia syndromes: what have they taught us about arrhythmias and anti-arrhythmic therapy?

1. In recent years, the identification of the gene defects in a vast array of monogenic disorders has revolutionized our understanding of the basic mechanisms underlying numerous disease processes. 2. Mutations in cardiac ion channels have been identified as the basis of a wide range of inherited arrhythmia syndromes, including the congenital long QT syndromes, Brugada syndrome, Lenegre syndrom...