This article examines four accepted wisdoms about HIV/AIDS and African armies and in each case concludes that substantial revision is necessary in the light of emerging evidence. First, it appears that military populations do not necessarily have a higher prevalence of HIV than civilian populations. HIV levels in armies depend on many factors including the demographics of the army, its pattern ...

We pursue the principles of duality and symmetry building upon Pratt’s idea of the Stone Gamut and Abramsky’s representations of quantum systems. In the first part of the paper, we first observe that the Chu space representation of quantum systems leads us to an operational form of state-observable duality, and then show via the Chu space formalism enriched with a generic concept of closure con...

Evidence and Evolution was written by Elliott Sober, a philosopher of science who has worked on the notion of evidence, in the statistical meaning of the word. All chapters relate to papers that he has authored or co-authored over the past few years. Evidence and Evolution does not aim to demonstrate the validity of one evolution theory against another, but rather at validating statistical ways...