In “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’” (Journal of East Asian Studies 9, 3: 369–398), Yitan Li, Patrick James, and A. Cooper Drury presented a newly created data set to show that Chen Shui-bian used independence rhetoric and confrontation with the mainland as a diversionary tactic in the face of domestic political difficulties. In the present exchange, Jonathan Sullivan challen...

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Agnosticism has always had its fair amount of criticism. Religious believers often described the first agnostics as infidels and it is not uncommon to see them somewhat dull fence-sitters. Moreover, undecided agnostic stance on belief in gods compared with being unsure about such obviously false statements existence orbiting teapots, invisible dragons or even Santa Claus. In this paper, I maint...

Solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations have established solid evidence for non-vanishing neutrino masses and determined mass squared differences δm and the mixing matrix U with increasing accuracy. The puzzle of the absolute mass scale for neutrinos, though, is still unsolved . In fact it is a true experimental challenge to determine an absolute neutrino mass below 1 eV. Three approaches h...