We can also better engage with policy makers about the usefulness and limitations of research claims to inform policy.
I understand a news anchor "reporting" from The San Francisco Bay Area does not live in the community he claims to inform.
Many health researchers use administrative data (e.g., physician billing claims) to inform and enhance decision-making and patient outcomes [ 1].
As a general rule, health claims and qualified health claims are designed to inform healthy people of dietary practices that may help reduce the risk of contracting a disease condition.
Children encounter ideas about how the world works from both religion and science and they are often presented with these ideas as "truths" from figures of authority – priests, imams and science teachers – who in turn claim to be informed by even greater sources of authority such as the bible, Qur'an or science textbooks.
When a majority of voters (no matter which club/party they belong to) are kept in the dark about the most basic aspects of our foreign policy -- the things EHMs and jackals do, the lies about weapons of mass destruction, and the detention of uncharged prisoners -- we can not claim to be informed.
In that sense, broad consents still claim to be informed consents.
The family of Junior Seau, a former star linebacker who shot and killed himself last year, has also sued the N.F.L., claiming it failed to inform players about the risks of brain injury.
Experiences of color, it is claimed, are enough to inform us of the nature of color.
However, these findings indicate that shared decision-making documented in the patient's record could provide what King & Moulton call 'perfected informed consent' and, in many instances, may prevent litigation on a failure to inform claim (see Figure 3).
