by Lincoln Williams. Edgar Backus, Leicester6/-. This small book takes only a few minutes to read and naturally deals only very superficially with the problem of alcoholism. It is "addressed to the man in the street, and his doctor too" but it will scarcely give the latter much he doesn't know, and its main purpose must be to provide an encouragement for the sufferer and for his family, by emph...

Everything gives you cancer, at least if you believe what you read in the news or see on TV. Fortunately, every thing also cures cancer, from red wine to silver nanoparticles. Of course the truth lies somewhere in between, and scientists might point out that these claims are at worst dangerous sensationalism and at best misjudged journalism. These kinds of media story, which inflate the risks a...

The standard view in social science and philosophy is that lying does not require the liar's assertion to be false, only that the liar believes it to be false. We conducted three experiments to test whether lying requires falsity. Overall, the results suggest that it does. We discuss some implications for social scientists working on social judgments, research on lie detection, and public moral...

We live in a world where uncertainty has been eliminated. The publication of the Doctrine of Certitude meant that uncertainty was officially forbidden for the first time in history. The passage of this law rendered the phrases ‘I don’t know’, ‘I’m not sure’ and even ‘Huh . . .’ illegal and punishable by life imprisonment. Neoastrophysicists, using chaos theory, have modelled intergalactic maps ...