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  • Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine? 

    Borgerson, Kirstin (2005-09)
    Focuses on the controversy over the validity of evidence-based medicine (EBM). Proposal for a hierarchy of evidence according to which randomized controlled trials (RCT) and meta-analyses of RCT provide the most reliable ...
  • The HFEA public consultation process on hybrids and chimeras: informed, effective, and meaningful? 

    Baylis, F. (2009-03)
    In September 2007, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in the United Kingdom concluded that "there is no fundamental reason to prevent cytoplasmic hybrid research ... this area of research can, with ...
  • Introduction to "The Development of a People" 

    Gooding-Williams, Robert; Jeffers, Chike (2013-04)
    An introduction is presented in which the reprinting of "The Development of a People," an essay on race by African-American scholar and activist William Edward Burghardt du Bois, within the issue is discussed.
  • The Nature of Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine 

    Goldenberg, Maya J.; Borgerson, Kirstin; Bluhm, Robyn (2009-Sprin)
    The article focuses on the examination of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in medicine. EBM's contribution in the clinical practice has long been used in the development of institutional and professional guidelines in ...
  • Paraconsistent Logic: The View from the Right 

    Schotch, Peter K. (The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1992)
    "The best known approaches to "reasoning with inconsistent data" require a logical framework which is decidedly non-classical. An alternative is presented here, beginning with some motivation which has been surprised ...
  • Promises and perils of cognitive performance tools: A dialogue 

    Viirre, Erik; Baylis, Françoise; Downie, Jocelyn (2007)
    Cognitive performance tools are evolving and their application is expanding rapidly. Although these tools promise significant advantages, they also raise a number of significant ethical and social concerns. This paper ...
  • VALUING EVIDENCE: bias and the evidence hierarchy of evidence-based medicine 

    Borgerson, Kirstin (2009-Sprin)
    No abstract available.