This article addresses the social and historical relation between Chicago School neo-liberalism and contemporary racism, and its connections with the formations of racism in classical liberalism and its colonial character. I show the pragmatic and discursive operations of neo-racism in the context of this shift to a neo-liberal discourse, drawing particularly on Michel Foucault’s seminars, Soci...

BACKGROUND The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT) is increasingly being used to evaluate policy or service delivery interventions. However, there is a dearth of trials literature addressing analytical approaches to the SW-CRT. Perhaps as a result, a significant number of published trials have major methodological shortcomings, including failure to adjust for secular trends at the a...

The hot-hand fallacy has long been considered a widespread cognitive illusion with important consequences for decision-makers. A sports player may misinterpret a lucky streak of successful shots, and pursue a more aggressive strategy that hurts one’s performance. A physician prone to the hot-hand fallacy may also misinterpret random streaks of poor patient outcomes, and respond by treating the ...

DIKW hierarchy is the model used for discussion of data, information, knowledge, wisdom and their interrelationships. However, definitions of data, information, and knowledge are entrapped in a logical fallacy known as circular definition. There are some agreements in the definitions without the fallacy. The missing ‘Intelligence’ in DIKW plays a major role between knowledge and wisdom. This gi...

The central purpose of this inquiry is to analyze the fallacy of wrenching from context. Logic textbooks and other accounts briefly explain this manipulative technique as a linguistic distortion of the other party’s thesis. It is a fallacy in which there are two or more parties engaged in argumentation and one has interpreted or represented the position of another in an improper way that has fa...

Many philosophers appeal to the “fallacy of approximation”, or “problem second best”. However, despite pervasiveness such appeals, there has been only a single attempt provide systematic account what fallacy is. We identify shortcomings this and propose better one in its place. Our not captures all contexts which approximation-based reasoning occurs but also systematically explains several diff...

The fallacy that the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics implies certain survival in quantum-Russian-roulette-like situations (the ‘Quantum Suicide’ (QS) thought experiment) has become common enough that it is now necessary to publicly debunk this belief despite the risk of further publicizing it. ‘Quantum Immortality’ (QI) is an extension of the QS Fallacy (QSF) with some add...