Word: guesswork
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...large part, such massive miscalculations have less to do with politics than with the simple fact that epidemiology involves an inordinate amount of guesswork. Routine re-evaluations of existing data often result in data shifts, sometimes huge ones, which global health experts and epidemiologists have come to expect. "If you go up to a little clinic in Africa, first of all, the staff are overwhelmed with patients," says Nahlen, who used to do monitoring work for WHO. The data, if it's properly recorded, then goes up to the officials, who may also be overwhelmed. Those records then get passed...
...replication in a trial last year. At issue is the fact that researchers still don't know exactly how the body defends against HIV. Without critical knowledge of the precise immune factors, or correlates, that prevent infection, testing any vaccine candidate that functions by triggering immune defenses would be guesswork. That's why, Fauci says, he rejected the proposal to do a large trial, involving thousands of patients and numerous immune correlates. "What I will entertain is a leaner, meaner and smaller trial that precisely asks and answers, 'Does the vaccine work and is it successful in lowering viral load...
...follow the ancient Okinawan practice and stop eating when we’re 80% full. But personally, I don’t know what 80% full feels like, and surrounded by food I haven’t prepared myself, I don’t want to live by guesswork. (In many restaurants, a stick of butter can easily slip into a meal and go unnoticed by even the most calorie-conscious diners.) These placards aren’t mandates. They’re tools to make informed decisions, implements to hold the chefs accountable for preparing healthy foods, and methods...
Until now. Thanks to the Health-Care Callousness Assessment Test (or HCCAT, for short)--a test I've devised as a supporter of universal coverage enacted in economically rational ways--the guesswork and knee jerk can be taken out of the equation. With three simple questions--the kind that can be dropped casually in conversation or on national TV during a debate--anyone can discern whether a Republican's approach to health care is truly pitiless or merely unsympathetic. A look at how the HCCAT scores Romney's Massachusetts plan and the health-care tax deduction just announced by Rudy...
TIME's selection showed that Hispanics are a diverse and vibrant group. But listing 25 influential Latinas and Latinos who are still proving their worth involved much guesswork. Perhaps it would have been better to name prominent people who already have a lifelong record of accomplishment. Latinas and Latinos have an established tradition of community building in the U.S. We have been here longer than most other Americans realize...