Correctly distinguishing between correlation and causation is critical because it influences how treatments for illnesses are devised and tested. Also, in the context of the law, it ensures that as ...

The concept of causality is not only of interest in the natural sciences, but also plays a central role in the attribution of responsibility in law and ethics. A workshop on 19 and 20 April will be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Evidence-based medicine (EBM) was first established in the 1980s when physicians and medical educators purposed to more uniformly apply ...

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision in Brotherston v. Putnam Investments, LLC, No 17-1711 (Oct. 15, 2018) solidifies a circuit split on whether an ERISA fiduciary ...

In the recent appellate decision Hemmings v. Peng, the court upheld the plaintiff’s success at trial but assigned sole liability to one physician instead of preserving the split between two physicians ...

Panel: Panel consists of Justices Christopher, Brown, and Wise. PUBLISH – TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b). On Appeal from the 300th District Court, Brazoria County, Texas. Trial Court Cause Nos. 70222 & 70223 ...

"I read it as a joke!" one student chortled. "It definitely wasn't completely serious, was it?" another asked as she shook her head in disbelief. The intimate group of nine students—which includes a ...

When the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) radically changed diagnoses in US psychiatry, one of its main goals was to directly remove Freudian or ...

We all know the truism “Correlation doesn’t imply causation,” but when we see lines sloping together, bars rising together, or points on a scatterplot clustering, the data practically begs us to ...

On February 9, 2018, Judge Charles E. Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California held that “newly discovered evidence” regarding the basis for an auditor’s ...