According to Thomas Jefferson, "government being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree". What was his "solution" to the people's wrong-headedness?
Dr Paul Hodgkin, who founded Patient Opinion, takes the radical view that patients should own their e-records.
His optimistic belief in the impotence of government against advancing opinion (which partly glosses and extends Hume's comment that all government is founded on opinion) is balanced by some sociologically perceptive comments on the baleful influence that certain types of political power have on those who exercise it or are subject to it.
The writer had founded "La Opinion" in 1971; before that he was a political journalist for 24 years.
Her father Rene Mezieres de Lepervanche had founded La Opinion, the leading newspaper in Santo Domingo until 1945 when it was finally discontinued.
In other words, of the two kinds of infamy known to the law of England before the declaration of independence, the constitutional amendment looked to the one founded on the opinions of the people respecting the mode of punishment, rather than to that founded on the construction of law respecting the future credibility of the delinquent.
In the case of Burma, such meek and ill-founded opinions have cost lives.
But judges are not trained to evaluate scientific testimony and tend to allow the airing of unsubstantiated opinions rather than risk excluding well-founded opinions.
Inter-jurisdictional examples include determining the appropriate sampling frequencies required to obtain meaningful trends or develop well-founded opinions, the correlation of indicators from different jurisdictions, and problems associated with extrapolation to varying scales of application.
It is clear that the government is using ill-founded opinions to try and justify the unjustifiable action of closing 36 Remploy factories down quickly, and closing or privatising the remaining 18 within the next year.
In this work, our objective was to study whether visual analytics could be used for comparing drug properties such as contraindications and adverse effects, and whether this visual comparison can help physicians to forge their own well-founded opinions about a new drug.
