M anufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) formally thanks the guest associate editors and reviewers, who provided expert counsel and guidance on a voluntary basis. Through their efforts the journal was able to provide submitting authors with timely, thoughtful, and constructive reviews. In fact, for papers submitted in 2008, M&SOM received 514 reviews from 277 individuals. Remarkab...

Delusions are deeply evidence-resistant. Patients with delusions unmoved by evidence that is in direct conflict the delusion, often responding to such offering obvious, and strange, confabulations. As a consequence, standard view not evidence-responsive. This claim has been used as key argumentative wedge debates on nature of delusions. Some have taken be beliefs argued this implies belief cons...