Legal Remedies for Suspect Medical Science in Products Cases – Part Four
Requirements Imposed By State Licensing Boards and Medical Professional Societies The involvement of medical professionals in disciplining physicians for dubious litigation testimony, whether through...
View ArticleLegal Remedies for Suspect Medical Science in Products Cases – Part Five
Claims under Federal and State Racketeering Acts And Other Civil Remedies There are three types approaches to civil remedies a defendant might pursue to inhibit the flow of false claims in products...
View ArticleJunk Science in 2020
Exploring pathology can help us appreciate proper physiological function, and how normal functioning can be lost. In the realm of epistemology, studying error or patho-epistemology, can help us...
View ArticleCenter for Truth in Science
The Center for Truth in Science Well, now I have had the complete 2020 experience, trailing into 2021. CoVid-19, a.k.a. Trump flu happened. The worst for me is now mostly over, and I can see a light...
View ArticleThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Mangling of Causal Apportionment for...
After the advent of hyperstrict products liability law in the 1960s, Pennsylvania law fell into the trap of treating liability as joint and several, based upon pro rata, or per capita contribution. The...
View ArticleCrying Wolf Projected
Over the years ago, I have written about David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, two academic historians, who testify a lot for the lawsuit industry, mostly in asbestos cases, but also in cases involving...
View ArticleWhen the American Medical Association Woke Up
“You are more than entitled not to know what the word ‘performative’ means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it does not mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its...
View ArticleOf Significance, Error, Confidence & Confusion – In Law & Statistics
A version of this post appeared previously on Professor Deborah Mayo’s blog, Error Statistics Philosophy. The post was invited as a comment on Professor Mayo’s article in Conservation Biology, which is...
View ArticleHindsight Bias – In Science & in the Law
In the early 1970s, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman raised the awareness of hindsight bias as a pervasive phenomenon in all human judgment.[1] Although these insights seemed eponymously obvious in...
View ArticleReference Manual – Desiderata for 4th Edition – Part II – Epidemiology &...
There are many nits that a reader could pick with the third edition of the Reference Manual, but one non-trivial issue is raised by the epidemiology chapter’s pronouncement that: “Epidemiology is...
View ArticleGrumpy Old Men
This blog is not about politics, although sometimes I have wandered into the political thicket when the events of the day involved scientific and statistical issues.[1] Our current events today do not...
View ArticleThe Genuine Liberal Meaning of Rule 702
This spring, I had the chance to participate on a panel at the Defense Research Institute’s annual seminar on drug and medical device law. It was a pleasure to work with Dr. Ivan Oransky and Dr. Erica...
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