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...most important people at Duke Med, is on a flight to Washington, where he is scheduled to lead an international strategy session on how heart-failure drugs should be studied. As director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, he is charged with doing whatever he can to take the guesswork out of medical care, and he has a specific statistic he wants to change. "Only 15% of the decisions a doctor makes every day are based on evidence," he recites...
This solution only works for new applications, though; many older programs originally designed for Windows 3.1 don't have uninstall features. Windows 95 and 3.1 users alike are still stuck with guesswork for these files...
Pinker has little patience with critics, particularly Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who accuses evolutionary psychologists in general (and presumably Pinker as well) of indulging a "penchant for narrow and often barren speculation" and "pure guesswork in the cocktail-party mode." Pinker has even less patience with those who would confuse an evolutionary explanation for how the human mind evolved with the idea that our fate is genetically predetermined. Genes, he says, "do not dictate what we should accept or how we should live...
...that doctors don't know in advance what they are dealing with. Most physicians use trial and error: they prescribe a treatment and if it doesn't work, they try another until they find a remedy. Now scientists at Ohio University are trying to cut through some of that guesswork by fashioning a simple 15-min. screening test that will tell doctors where the pain occurs, how debilitating it is and what other factors (such as stress) may be contributing to it. The hope is that physicians will be able to determine in advance whether their patients will respond better...
...salivating. "What we want to do is establish an immortal cell line, something like an embryonic stem cell line, where you can produce literally unlimited numbers of these things," Donald Wolf, a senior scientist at the center, said at a news conference Sunday. Those "things" figure to take some guesswork out of medical research, since scientists working with thoroughly identical subjects can be confident that results are not subject to genetic foibles. They could also reduce the number of animals that would be needed in a given experiment, making research cheaper and requiring fewer monkeys. "The downside," Wolf said...