Despite his well-known criticisms of popular religion, Hume refers in seemingly complimentary terms to ‘true religion’; in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, his character Philo goes so far as to express ‘veneration for’ it. This paper addresses three questions. First, did Hume himself really approve of something that he called ‘true religion’? Second, what did he mean by calling it ‘true’?...

The aim of the experiment reported here was to investigate the processes underlying the construction of truthful and deliberately fabricated memories. Properties of memories created to be intentionally false – fabricated memories – were compared to properties of memories believed to be true – true memories. Participants recalled and then wrote or spoke true memories and fabricated memories of e...

O nce upon a time distinguishing between COPD and asthma in a smoking or ex-smoking patient was easy: a patient who smoked, had a low diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide or a hyperlucent radiogram, and no bronchodilator response was labelled as COPD; whereas a patient who, whether they smoked or not, had a bronchodilator response and airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) was an asthma...

Introduction: The validity of Body Mass Index (BMI) based on self-reported height and weight is of critical importance in the proper assessment of studies that rely on questionnaire-derived data. In this study, we evaluate the accuracy of adolescent overweight and obesity classification bpased on self-reported height and weight factors and propose a regression model for predicting the true BMI....