There's No Such Thing as Best Practice

"There's no such thing as a free meal".

There's No Such Thing as Culture: Towards a Reconceptualization of the Idea of Culture in Geography

ion, reification and the ideology

Can I say “ bobobo ” and mean “ There ’ s no such thing as cheap talk ” ?

The theory of cheap talk, evaluated as a model of language use, is shown to mismatch the reality of communication in five respects: real talk is conflict dampening, is more than assertion, is dear, is not literal, and is beholden to its medium. The linguistic theory of pragmatics is employed to demonstrate formally that every utterance creates a coordination game whose resolution reveals eviden...

The hidden costs of free lunches: fraud and abuse in physician-pharmaceutical arrangements.

When it comes to physician-pharmaceutical manufacturer relationships, the old adage "there's no such thing as a free lunch" has been given much support lately by federal fraud and abuse enforcement authorities. In light of recent enforcement developments and initiatives, physicians must now, more than ever, develop an understanding of the legal boundaries of regulatory and ethical guidelines an...

Spreadsheet good practice: is there any such thing?

Various techniques for developing spreadsheet models greatly improve the chance that the end result will not contain basic mechanical errors. However, for every discipline in which a given technique is useful, there is likely to be another in which the same technique works badly. As a result, the author urges that EuSpRIG does not succumb to internal or external pressures to champion a particul...