Comment. Is incretin-based therapy ready for the care of hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes?

Adam M. Deane and Michael Horowit

Does Socrates vindicate the coherence theory of truth?

Within Plato's Socratic Dialogues we routinely observe the character of Socrates employing a formal, yet largely unexplained method of investigation into the beliefs that his interlocutors hold as true. Socrates even goes so far as to claim there will be discord within them their whole life should they not be able refute one of his controversial and counter-intuitive revealed truths. With the beliefs under investigation striking to the core of how one should live a good life, this paper seeks to investigate whether Socrates' formal method justifies him in making the claims he does. After exposing the methodology of his technique, we turn to investigate the theory of truth that the method represents, seeking to ascertain a greater understanding of what truth means to Socrates when he makes the claim that a belief is true

Bigger Bodies, Bigger Bruises: How men’s collegiate hockey player sizes affect injury rates 1989-2004

This study looks at men\u27s collegiate hockey player sizes from 1989-2004 and correlates that data with the growth in injury rates seen within the same time period. Results show that player size (in terms of weight) has a statistically significant effect on player injury rates

Theology and the culture of the sciences

This is a PDF version of an article published in New Blackfriars© 2000. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.This article discusses the relationship between religion and science. It focuses on facts and values, encultured science, exploring elements of scientific culture, theology and scientism, and theology and the future of science

Gaia as science made myth: Implications for environmental ethics

This is a PDF version of an article published in Studies in Christian Ethics© 1996. The definitive version is available at http://sce.sagepub.comThis article discusses the Gaia hypothesis - the earth as a giant ecosystem. It comments on scientific models of Gaia (the interconnected model, the homeostatic process model, the cooperative evolutionary model, the ideological/technological model) and ambiguous ethical implications. The article particularly comments on the work of James Lovelock

Fabricated humans? Human genetics, ethics and the Christian wisdom tradition

This is a PDF version of an article published in Dialog© 2005. The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.This article discusses moral and ethical issues surrounding genetic screening and testing and argues that principles of Christian ethics and wisdom can guide this debate