David Plotz, arguing in America's pre-eminent journal of counterintuitivism, explains why America needs more of Mr Christie's brand of politics.
Having dedicated my career to improving maternal health, I am outraged that some advocates lobbied a pre-eminent journal to withhold evidence demonstrating that our collective efforts to save women's lives are working.
Today there are still nearly 870 million hungry people, and according to data released just days ago by the eminent Lancet journal, in 2011 there were 165 million stunted children.
Investing in equity From Thandeka in East London, South Africa, to the world's eminent medical journal (The Lancet) in London UK, the same tune is being sung: Early childhood is the most effective and cost-efficient time to intervene to address inequalities and to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
THE American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world's leading bodies tasked with supporting and propagating all manner of boffinry, and the publisher of Science, a pre-eminent scientific journal, knows how to throw a party.
The credibility of government data cited by the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, to support the country's punitive drugs policies has been criticised by a group of leading health experts and academics in one of the world's most eminent medical journals.
But the Neuroblastoma Alliance, which supports families such as the MacGlashans to raise money for treatment abroad, points out that a trial in the US, published by the eminent New England Journal of Medicine, has already shown that using the antibody together with two other cytokines cuts deaths by 25%.
It is to be hoped that eminent researchers and journal editors will work together to develop strong and transparent standards for the field; otherwise, in an era of cheap exome sequencing, even a low false positive rate will rapidly swamp the literature with spurious findings.
Founded in 1932 as a forum for the nation's pre-eminent thinkers, the journal has been a virtual Who's Who of American intellectual life, featuring poetry and prose by luminaries from Albert Einstein to Saul Bellow.
To mark its centenary issue, the journal asked six eminent economists to trawl through the thousands of papers that followed and pick the top 20.
