"My concern with the market at this level is that without signs eliciting some evidence the economy is actually strengthening from the pace we've had, the multiple expansion doesn't seem rational".
"It doesn't seem rational for there to be a strike because both sides should recognize that the shrinking size of the pie would more than offset any gains they might achieve," said Allen Sanderson, a University of Chicago economics professor.
"It just doesn't seem rational that any political leader would say, let's give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs," said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration.
To come down completely on the side of one or the other doesn't seem rational to me.
But this image of rational scientific rescue is undone in a story like "The Molecule's Defiance," where the laws of science do not seem rational at all.
Dan Ariely researches the forces that influence our behavior, with a focus on the decisions we make that do not seem rational or in our best interests.
On the other hand, the gender differences in the prescription of simvastatin did not seem rational.
Alas, I have little to no hope that we will actually do this, because our larger socioeconomic system, which contains the credit system, does not seem particularly rational these days either.
Setting priorities for HPSR through a disease specific lens does not seem a rational approach, and it is likely to systematically undervalue the contribution of HPSR.
In truth, after spending this much time in her presence, not taking her side does not seem like the rational thing to do.
