Let's hope that Daniel Carlat becomes both savior and saboteur of what has become a grossly misguided, albeit well-intentioned, field of practice.
People in the medical field are well intentioned and feel great distress when they harm patients.
These well-intentioned experiments are tackling these problems through intense field testing.
Although these endeavors are well intentioned and significant progress has been made in our field over the past few decades, I believe that we need both to re-emphasize the importance of results derived from meaningful study designs and to avoid the notion that nonsignificant P values represent study failure.
The field, Katz said, has "very many well-intentioned advocacy groups who are doing things that there's no evidence that's helpful" -- but Per Scholas is different.
"Unfortunately, many patients who are well intentioned are in trials that really don't advance the field very much," said Dr. Richard Schilsky, an oncologist at the University of Chicago and immediate past president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
But as the newly released field reports on Afghanistan suggest, even the best-intentioned people can be undermined by a failed mission and untrustworthy allies.
In his book, Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology, the Yale-trained computer scientist skewers all kinds of well-intentioned initiatives that have promised to level the proverbial playing field: Online education, microcredit and even the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.
It's no small task, being the paper of record, but such pronouncements as "journalists have no place on the playing fields of politics" can seem as disingenuous as they are well intentioned.
As the field has expanded, stormy debates have erupted about the risk of Western do-gooders wasting resources on well intentioned but misconceived design projects.
For one thing, because science teachers are generally expected to present the best thinking in the field as the current state of knowledge, without pointing out each and every dissenting view, even well-intentioned teachers trying to paint a balanced picture may end up leaving students with the impression that intelligent design is in fact true.
