Questions of who counts as an expert and why, and concerns about the effects of the expert's discourse are given equal status to questions of the verity of what is said.
My further misgivings about this and similar papers are not even criticisms but more philosophical musings about the status of "Why?" questions in biology.
As for the status of "why?" questions in biology, we entertain the idea that it should be exactly the same as in any other scientific field.
A related observation bears on the status of Open Question 3b.
Meta-analysis strictly establishes the status of the question of the efficacy of the different therapeutic agents (although it is also beginning to be used to assess diagnostic procedures), increasing the statistical power of the original works and improving the accuracy of the estimation of the effect studied.
As he becomes more revered, treasured, cherished, sucked up to, Friedman thinks bigger, wider, deeper, weightier, with no trend and no trip beyond his Delphic purview -- and no one of equal status to question the wisdom of his ways and means.
Like Arizona's law, Alabama's lets police inquire into the immigration status of people they question or arrest.
At a meeting yesterday, he complained that the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, "has not responded" to several new proposals on the status of Jerusalem, and questioned whether "Arafat has the political courage to make the move".
Good Torre, Bad Torre While the Yankees ponder the employment status of Joe Torre, a question: If Torre deserves credit for engineering the Yankees' playoff-successful comeback from their terrible 21-29 record in the first two months of the season, shouldn't he, as the manager, deserve blame for that awful start?
The measure, which requires police to check the immigration status of people they question or detain, has been denounced as a "Nazi" or "near-fascist" law, a "police state" intervention, an imitation of "apartheid," a "Juan Crow" regime that only a bigot could possibly support.
