I asked: "Do you see contradictions of liberalism -- from LBJ to today -- proclaiming progress but backing wars, bombings, and increasingly presiding over more economic inequality?" This was notably truncated by the Press Club management (either John Hughes or someone else who passed him my questions) to exclude the reference to wars and bombings: "What is your opinion on liberalism?
It also contained questions to exclude psychosis and normal grief.
Other items from 11 to 18 contain questions to exclude functional gallbladder and sphincter of Oddi disorders.
In the Danish translation, the opening line was repeated in all questions to exclude any doubt about the wording of the questions, even if the addition of the wording raised some concern about the length of the questions.
Moreover, the expert panel and the caregivers (in the cognitive testing) had no suggestion for other questions to be included or existing questions to exclude: this supports the relevance of the included items.
Far from starting his study in equipoise, with a mind open to every possibility, Fleming only considered the sleeping position question in order to exclude it.
But just as importantly one can also question the decision to exclude from both the one in 10 estimates for perpetration and the one in four estimate for sexual contact, cases where the perpetrator did not use physical force or incapacitation but rather relied on verbal coercions and/or failed to get consent and/or failed to heed verbal refusals to initiate sexual contact.
A central issue is planning bias, the question being how to exclude accidental (unplanned) pregnancies without bias occurring if the exposure variable is associated with the degree of "plannedness".
This question was used to exclude cases in which care was mainly provided by domestic workers, hired healthcare professionals, state-run social services, social services provided by non-governmental entities (NGOs, associations) or for-profit companies.
However, it is a system that has recently being called into question, with proposals to exclude non-eligible migrants, including failed asylum seekers and irregular migrants, from access to free GP services [ 7], and recent changes to the enforcement and scope of hospital charging procedures [ 8].
