| Stanley Edlavitch - 1989 - 392 páginas
...science as well. As Schlesselman has observed: All scientific work is incomplete — whether it is observational or experimental. All scientific work...a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have. Judge Shoob took that liberty with the scientific literature, which collectively represents all that... | |
| Anthony J. McMichael - 1993 - 376 páginas
...Hill, a British medical statistician, reminded us that science does not deal in absolute facts: AH scientific work is liable to be upset or modified...knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asked Robert Browning, but the world may end... | |
| Olivier Godard - 1997 - 354 páginas
...fréquence "Ail scient if ic work is incomplète - whether it be observational or expérimental. AU scientific work is liable to be upset or modified...knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore thé knowledge we already hâve, or to postpone thé action that it appears to demand at a given time".... | |
| Bonnye L. Matthews - 1998 - 216 páginas
...problem-solving innovations. It dismisses the import of these eloquent words of Sir Bradford Hill: All scientific work is incomplete — whether it be...knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.71 MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY SYNDROME At the outset,... | |
| Ross C. Brownson, Diana B. Petitti - 1998 - 418 páginas
...Chapter 9). The difficulty in determining scientific certainty was aptly summarized by AB Hill (1965): All scientific work is incomplete — whether it be...knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time. In some cases (eg, smoking and lung cancer, aspirin and... | |
| Darrell E. Ward - 1999 - 500 páginas
...the responsibility to act in spite of incomplete understanding comes from A. B. Hill, who reminds us: All scientific work is incomplete — whether it be...knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time.1 ENDNOTE 1 . Hill AB. The environment and disease: associaton... | |
| Donald P. Albert, Wilbert M. Gesler, Barbara Levergood - 2000 - 240 páginas
...deciding causation in disease-environment relations including the case of cancer. But even Hill concluded: "All scientific work is incomplete — whether it...knowledge we already have, or to postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time" (Hill, 1965, p. 300). REFERENCES Aldrich, IE and KR Krautheim.... | |
| Stuart Biddle, Kenneth R. Fox, Stephen Hugh Boutcher - 2000 - 234 páginas
...consider inactivity to be a factor in the onset of depression. However, as Hill (1965, p. 12) reminded us. All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be...freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time. The potential benefit of advocating... | |
| Stuart Biddle, Nanette Mutrie - 2001 - 388 páginas
...Researchers and practitioners cannot delay action until the knowledge base is perfect. As Hill reminded us: All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be...freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, or postpone the action that it appears to demand at a given time. (Hill 1965: 12) We hope this book inspires... | |
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