Patients were proactive and rational in addressing symptoms; many developed alternative, non-cancer explanations based on their knowledge and experience.
Whether the dynamics underlying a particular trend are driven, passive, or some combination of both, they in turn call out for an explanation based on an identification of their underlying causes (and, at an even deeper level of resolution, the bases for those causes; Table 1).
Their alternative explanation, based on a notion of Thai uniqueness, seems to have been pulled out of a hat like a rabbit.There is an obvious resemblance to the concept of "Asian values", such as were espoused by Mahathir Mohamad, who ran Malaysia for 22 years.
Rather than an extrinsic, life-history related explanation relating minicircles in lice to their parasitism, an explanation based on a genetic factor, loss of mtSSB, seems more plausible.
Mechanistic explanation, based on the electronic properties of the substituents and their mesomeric effects, was presented.
Taking pragmatics into consideration, judging an explanation based on its acceptability to cognitive subject becomes one of the main trends in philosophy after logical positivism.
Can one potentially rule out an explanation based on attention/arousal?
But he now says an innocent explanation, based on laboratory error, not fraud, is possible.
"Evolution through natural selection is up there with gravity and I wouldn't trivialise that with another explanation based on a divine being.
But there is also a longer-term explanation, based on the weakened power of labour after the entry of countries like China into the global employment market.
