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...Indeed, the world's most famous wine expert doesn't expect the e-tongue to put him out of business anytime soon. Although he admits that his knowledge of the device is limited, critic Robert Parker of Wine Advocate says, "It's hard to believe any computer can interpret the nuances of smell and taste as well as a human's olfactory gland...
...when numbers are assigned to subjective experience (e.g., "my discomfort level is now three out of 10") and plugged into an algebraic formula, they produce "rational" or "evidence-based" conclusions, which suddenly have the ring of scientific truth. As far as the evidence-based movement is concerned, heeding mere "expert opinion," from even the most successful clinician, would be akin to taking the word of a bearded man with a wand...
Take, for example, the case of a prolapsed umbilical cord. In roughly 1 out of every 300 births, the cord slips down into the birth canal before the baby does and risks cutting off the baby's oxygen supply. Kitty Ernst, an expert on midwifery at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing in Hyden, Ky., says midwives are trained to push the baby's head back up off the cord and hold it there--the same way an obstetric nurse would--and get Mom to the hospital as an operating room is being prepared for her. "Your hand...
...much beyond pro forma calls for calm. India is a proudly secular state, and acknowledging the friction between Hindus and Muslims could offend the millions of Muslims who have nothing to do with extremist groups, domestic or otherwise. "Our politicians are still in denial mode," says Raman, the counterterrorism expert. "To be able to solve this problem, they have to understand its real nature." The rift between India's Hindus and Muslims is real. Until India acknowledges that fact, the country can't begin to mend...
...issues and problems Zimbabwe is facing." Zimbabwe already has two vice presidents, both high-ranking members of Mugabe's Zimbabwean African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) Party, and both are confined to largely ceremonial duties. "[The talks are] deadlocked, according to the MDC guys," said Chris Maroleng, Zimbabwe expert at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Pretoria. "The position they were offered is untenable for them...