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...everyone is convinced by that logic. Dr. Robert Schwartz, an editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, says, "Using patients as their own control is a bit shaky, especially for follicular lymphoma." A Phase III randomized trial, more difficult but still possible to conduct even with customized vaccines remains, he says, "the gold standard for proof of efficacy." Dr. Kwak, who is conducting his own Phase III trial of a vaccine for the American pharmaceutical company Biovest, believes his former trainee's results support the case for a therapeutic lymphoma vaccine, but is skeptical about his methods. "Dr. Bendandi...
...book that provides validation and comfort for non-readers, arguing that people feel unnecessary guilt for not having read a book.Bayard is attempting to alleviate their guilt and give them the tools to avoid feeling excluded from the book-reading community.While I’m skeptical of the logic of a book that argues against reading, Bayard is onto something. Why do we feel the need to fake it in casual conversation? The idea that there is a canon of great literature that one must read in order to be cultured is daunting and unrealistic.Bayard provides a number of tips...
...movement of millions of environmental refugees. Others argue that while such preparations are a matter of urgency because of the warming trend already in motion, at the same time, if carbon emissions continue to rise, so will temperatures, intensifying the crisis. But there's broad agreement on the economic logic of immediate global action, says Robert Watson, the chief scientist for the World Bank and a former chair of the IPCC: "The cost of mitigation will be less than the cost of inaction...
...Bible to high school students, we should consider the effect on students who hold different faiths or no faith at all. I am not a Christian, so I know firsthand the exclusion that follows from not being like everyone else. Schools should focus first on teaching the rules of logic. Perhaps then a variety of religions could be taught without fear that a minority of students would be abused by fellow students and teachers...
...that same logic, the U.S. should be trying to climateproof New Orleans. Much of the city is already below sea level, making its lessons all the more valuable for other coastal communities. Ivor van Heerden, director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, has long urged a big-picture approach to hurricane protection. Restoring coastal wetlands, he says, is as important as building sound levees. During a hurricane, wetlands act like speed bumps, absorbing the force of incoming storm surges so that they are weaker when they reach inland. Louisiana's wetlands have been disappearing at an alarming rate because...