In this week's Time magazine, managing editor Rick Stengel makes a similar argument, recommending papers stop issuing endorsements "at a time when the credibility and viability of the press are at all-time lows".
Littlewood, the director of the institute, used two of the arguments recommended by Philip Morris in that leaked document: there's no evidence that plain packaging affects the number of people who smoke, and it stimulates a black market in cigarettes.
The argument that recommends ankle-length sackcloth in order to allow men to get on with the real work?
This is an argument that recommends belief cultivation because of the psychological, or moral, or religious, or social, or even the prudential benefits gained by virtue of believing it.
Citing opportunities in the technology and Internet sectors, she said, "We fail to see a compelling argument for recommending to the board that it liquidate this fund".
For some context for my argument, I recommend first going back and reading this Jack Shafer piece from 2006 (linked in my column), written when the name "Politico" hadn't yet been attached to John Harris and Jim Vandehei's nascent venture.
Is there an argument to recommend amnesia as the basis of a political transition? (for a detailed treatment see Rotondi and Eisikovits, forthcoming).
But aren't we, as advocates, meant to advance the cause, to plead in favor, to urge by argument, to recommend aggressively and publicly the counter-strategy, to promote specific solutions, to share commitment far and wide, and to reach for a just outcome?
These reasons remain the main argument to recommend such analgesic approaches before definitive conclusions on their influence on the oncological outcome.
Thus, apart from special situations (therapeutic hypothermia for instance), there is no argument for recommending the routine use of pharmacological agents in CA survivors.
