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Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty

Reflections on Brain Death, Hope, and the Limits of Certainty

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Physicians can define brain death. Legislatures can codify brain death. Courts can adjudicate brain death. None of them can fully explain life. The greatest physicians I have known understood that distinction. They recognized that wisdom begins where certainty ends.

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Major Journal under Fire for Omitting Pfizer’s Failed Flu Data in Seniors

Major Journal under Fire for Omitting Pfizer’s Failed Flu Data in Seniors

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Unless this system is forced into the open, selective reporting will continue to be standard practice in even the most prestigious journals. And the public will keep receiving a polished marketing story instead of the full scientific truth.

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