On February 9th 2007 the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS) launched its official scientific journal, the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics (JCO), as a much necessary global educational platform.1 It rapidly became the sine-qua-non source of information and an authority in providing scientific and clinical data to the Paediatric Orthopaedic community worldwide. We have then underta...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) received a request on 19 September 2008 from the European Commission, Health and Consumers Directorate requesting urgent scientific advice on the risks to human health due to the possible presence of melamine in composite food products imported from China into the European Union (EU). Considering the urgency of this request for advice EFSA issued a stat...

This article attracted great attention within the scientific and regulatory community. Substantial gaps in the study design, fundamental flaws in the data analysis and erroneous interpretation of results have been pointed out by individual scientists and administration bodies. Upon request by the European Commission, the European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA) reviewed the study and concluded...

At the request of the European Food Safety Authority, the Scientific Committee has reviewed the 8 current state-of-the-science on genotoxicity testing strategies and provided a commentary and 9 recommendations on testing strategies, bearing in mind the needs of EFSA’s various Scientific Panels 10 to have appropriate data for risk assessment. It is hoped that this opinion will contribute to grea...

In this paper, I want to examine and challenge certain criticisms of Dewey's conception of authority. These criticisms are, broadly speaking, of two species. The first set of criticisms involves what critics have labeled Dewey's "strong" authority. These critics, the so-called "Illinois Revisionists," argue that embedded in Dewey's social and educational philosophy are assumptions about authori...

Scientific journals have a central place in protecting research integrity because published articles are the most visible documentation of research. We used SWOT analysis to audit (S)trengths and (W)eaknesses as internal and (O)pportunities and (T)hreats as external factors affecting journals' responsibility in addressing research integrity issues. Strengths include editorial independence, auth...