The scientific flaws in medical research, especially as they relate to randomized controlled trials are rather uniform and the common denominator of such flaws is the attempt to prove, rather than falsify, the study hypothesis. This interactive educational exercise is an attempt to highlight these flaws in short scenarios.

A notion of truth as applicable to events of fact-stating use (utterances) of a sentence type is arguably presupposed and required by our evaluative practices of the use of language. The truth of an utterance clearly depends on what the utterance says. This fundamental dependence seems to be captured by the schema that if an utterance u says that P , then u is true iff P . Such a schema may thu...

The Western fascination with Persia, intensified though it was by the nineteenth century obsession with Indo-European languages, extends back into the classical origins of European culture. As Edward Said notes, Aeschylus' The Persians demonstrates how deeply embedded in the European mind is the belief in Persia's quintessential status as an Oriental society. For many Orientalists Persia demons...