Word: proofing
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...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's study is important because it confirms...
...Part of it is the softer edge of technology. Few people believe that Microsoft’s dubious dealings in the 90s were truly acting against the public interest. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page unseated MSN and Yahoo with a mere algorithm—proof of the economy’s democratic nature. Tech fortunes just seem less exploitative, built on mainframes and lines of code rather than the backs of unskilled laborers...
...nuclear fuel production - the capacity to enrich uranium to weapons grade still appears to be years away. As recently as March 5, Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said his agency's inspectors "have not seen concrete proof of the industrial capacity to produce weapon-usable nuclear material." Weeks earlier, the IAEA had said that Iran remained some time away from even the capacity to generate industrial-grade fuel (which is enriched to 3.5%, compared with the 90% required for bomb material). Western analysts believe that the IAEA...
...Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Jesus Christ is said to have risen bodily from his tomb. Many of the devout carried candles for the "Holy Fire Ritual," in which Orthodox priests descend to Christ's tomb and emerge with a flame that they say appears spontaneously - miraculous proof, believers say, that Christ has not forgotten his followers...
...beards and hair crackle spectacularly in the chaotic crush around the flame-bearing priests. Skeptics denounce the ritual as a 1,200-year-old sleight-of-hand whose secret is passed from one generation of high priests to the next. But for the thousands of gathered worshipers, it was proof of God's existence and Christ's resurrection...