As the text points out, causal reasoning is used in clinical studies. As a professional in the health field, you will undoubtedly be referring to cause/effect studies for the rest of your professional life. In this discussion, you are asked to expand and deepen your understanding of clinical studies.
In 1999, a study on the causes of myopia appeared in the prestigious journal Nature (Quinn). The study received wide-spread publicity in leading newspapers, such as the New York Times, and on television outlets, such as CBS and CNN. Within a year, another article in Nature followed up the 1999 study (Zadnik et al., 2000). The studies had dramatically different findings.
Initial Post Instructions
Using what you have learned from the text, as well as any other sources you may find useful (including the website in the Required Resources), analyze and evaluate the methodology of both studies and how methodology affected the differences in how the studies were reported.
The medical profession has a muddled and contradictory association with its approach toward the tobacco industry. While the profession now firmly opposes to smoking and vigorously publicizes the serious, even fatal, health hazards associated with smoking, this was not always so. Advertisements for tobacco products, including cigarettes "... became a ready source of income for numerous medical organizations and journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), as well as many branches and bulletins of local medical associations" (Wolinsky & Brune, 1994). Physicians and reference to doctors and smoking were once common in tobacco industry advertisements. The story of physicians and promotion of smoking can be found in "The Doctors' Choice Is America's Choice" (Gardner & Brandt, 2006).
The role of physicians in the current opioid crisis is now under scrutiny on television (Farmer, 2019) by trade publications
Instructions:
After reading all of Chapter 9, please select ONE of the following primary source readings:
A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson (starting on page 237)
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion by Mary Anne Warren (starting on page 247)
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Why Abortion is Immoral by Don Marquis (starting on page 256)
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Virtue Theory and Abortion by Rosalind Hursthouse (starting on page 268)
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Abortion Through a Feminist Lens by Susan Sherwin (starting on page 274)
Write a short, objective summary of 250-500 words which summarizes the main ideas being put forward by the author in this selection.
You have arrived at the third part of the Course Project. By this week, you should have collected the sources that you need to support, with relevant evidence, the position you have taken on the issue you chose, and the three aspects of the issue you will write about. This week you will submit a thesis statement and an annotated bibliography of at least five sources that you will use in your paper.
A thesis statement stating your opinion/conclusion on the issue, the supporting points you will offer and at least one relevant opposing view you will address.
An annotated bibliography with evaluation of at least five (5) sources you intend to use in your final paper to support your claim.
These are sources that provide evidence to support that your claim should be accepted by the reader.
Scholarly sources are preferred and should be used where available; due to the nature of some of the topics, authoritative articles in very high quality substantive journals may also be acc
Consider one of the following current social issues or one of your choice:
Opioid crisis
Legalization of recreational or medical marijuana
Vaping
Immigration
Elimination of the electoral college
Gun control
For the initial post, address the following:
State your position on one of these issues are you for, against, or neutral? Explain why. Avoid vagueness or ambiguity in your response. Make your position very clear.
Examine how you have formed that opinion.
How well do you think you know the facts?
Do you know and understand statistical information that applies to the issue?
Do you think you have formed your opinion using only System-1 thinking, or have you applied System-2?
What part have heuristics, cognitive bias, and dominance structuring played in how you have formed your opinions?
The initial post is not about how "correct" your position is; it is about how you arrived at your position on the issue. This discussion requires appl
briefly answer each of the following prompts. For all instances where you are required to provide a definition, do not copy definitions from the text. Use your own words.
Self-Regulation
The textbook mentions the skill of self-regulation. How do you define this term? You may want to review Chapter 2 (to review critical thinking skills) before your write out your definition.
Sytem-1 and System-2
Define System-1 and System-2 thinking in your own words.
Give an example from your personal or work life where you would use each of them, explaining why each is appropriate to the situation in which you use it.
Heuristics
Define "heuristic" in your own words.
Give an example of a heuristic might be used in your personal or professional life and briefly show how it could have a positive or negative effect.
Do not use examples found in the text.
Dominance Structuring
Explain the term "dominance structuring" in your own words.
Is dominance structuring a posi
Please select a question from the list below, and make sure to clearly state the question you are answering at the start of your essay.
Questions:
(1) What is the Mary problem against physicalism, and how effective is it?
(2) What are philosophical zombies, and what problem are they meant to pose for physicalism? How plausible is the zombie argument?
(3) What is the argument from illusion, and how is it used to motivate indirect realism over direct realism? Is it effective?
(4) What is the problem of fiction, and how do you think one should respond to it?
(5) Can the B-series capture everything there is about the nature of time? If not, what does it leave out?
(6) What are abstract objects? Are there any?
(7) What is the most persuasive mereological account of the relationship between parts and wholes? Defend your answer.
(8) What is an indispensability argument? What problems do such arguments face?
(9) How should we demarcate genuine science from pseudo
Present 5 of the following arguments as clearly, thoroughly, and concisely as you can (300 word max each)
A. Landesman's argument for color skepticism
B. Van Inwagen's argument that free will is a mystery
C. Moreland's defense of dualism
D. Taylor's or Lewis's or Polkinghorne's argument for theism
E. Walls's argument that morality is more compatible with theism than naturalism
F. Mackie's argument for atheism from evil
Feel free to use your imagination in the examples you create, but be sure to answer the questions thoroughly and accurately to the philosophers views. Papers must be 3-5 pages in length (3 page minimum!), double spaced, with no more than five lines of quotes (cite your quotes!!). As always, be sure to back up all claims you make, and stick to the questions!!
Note: Your answers must reflect the relevant issues that we covered regarding these philosophers in the readings and lectures (it is not sufficient to study some tertiary information from an internet source alone----you must read the material I assigned).
If you have questions or are unsure of what exactly I am asking for in any of these paper options-- just ask me to clarify!!
Option #1:
For Hume the Bell Tolls:
One day you wake up to realize you have slept for a hundred years. The world has changed drastically, and in multiple ways: scientists and philosophers have discovered that everything that David Hume cl
See several uploads - Must use the ideas of two great thinkers using their views on Government, social responsibility and culture. Aristotle, Nietzche, Beauvoir, Kant, Mill, Plato, Epictus, Epicurious, Mill, DuBois. I happen to think Nietzche and DuBois would make fine use in this, but feel free to use your own from above.
