Earlier this year, we published a paper that examined this very question of false reassurance around smoking.
Another weakness of these validation studies is that, with a few exceptions, they do not address the question of false negatives, which are cases of the disease who have not received a diagnostic code.
However, Rutherford and co fail to address the important question of false positives, when individuals who are not legitimate targets are falsely identified.
Previous studies have shown sample processing and the method of RNA extraction to significantly contribute to the sensitivity of RT PCR (Keilholz et al, 1998; Burchill et al, 1999) although the question of false positive or negative results has remained a challenge.
Then there is the question of false positives.
This time, after all, there is no question of false intelligence: the world's fears are based on capabilities that Iran itself boasts about openly.
Hence Plato's interest in the question of false belief.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board, charged with investigating police misconduct, has been reluctant to consider the question of false testimony part of its purview.
Also, we have not approached the more difficult question of false negatives.
The question of false positive rates with PET/CT and its ability to distinguish malignant from non-malignant abnormalities was not addressed in the previous studies or in our survey.
