So ... What ’ s Wrong with My Process ?

The Errors of Individualistic Public Health Interventions: Denial of Treatment to Obese Persons; Comment on “Denial of Treatment to Obese Patients—the Wrong Policy on Personal Responsibility for Health”

I agree entirely with Nir Eyal’s perspective that denying treatment to obese patients is morally wrong. However, the reasons for this belief differ in some ways from Eyal’s analysis. In this commentary, I will try to explain the similarities and differences in our perspectives. My primary claim is that the denial of treatment to obese patients is wrong principally because (i) it eschews a whole...

On the morality of deception--does method matter? A reply to David Bakhurst.

Does it signify morally whether a deception is achieved by a lie or some other way? David Bakhurst has challenged my view that it can signify. Here I counter his criticisms--firstly, by clarifying the terminology: What counts as a lie? Secondly, by exploring further what makes lying wrong. Bakhurst maintains that lying is wrong in that it infringes autonomy--and other deceiving stratagems, he s...

Short Course I What ’ s Wrong with My Mouse ? Strategies for Rodent Behavior Phenotyping

-1- State of Michigan

Thank you for the twenty-five questions which you included in your memo to me on May 13, 1998. These questions raise a wide range of important issues, and I hope that the following responses will lead to a dialog which advances the debate on the techniques proposed for use in the next census. 1. Can you tell us about a statistical or scientific activity that you've worked on that either worked ...

Oh No ! I Got the Wrong Sign ! What Should I Do ?

Getting a “wrong” sign in empirical work is a common phenomenon. Remarkably, econometrics textbooks provide very little information to practitioners on how this problem can arise. The author exposits a long list of ways in which a wrong sign can occur and how it might be corrected.