EVIDENCE-BASED CAMPAIGNING

Evidence-based campaigning

Abstract Background When promoting public health measures, such as reducing smoking, there are many different approaches, for example providing information, imposing legal restrictions, taxing products, and changing cultures.By analogy with evidence-based medicine, different approaches to campaigning for health promotion can be compared by obtainin

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The Authority of the Fallacies Approach to Argument Evaluation

Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the a&d ej-123 Adversary Method identified by Janice Moulton (1983) that takes the goal of argumentation to be the defeat of other arguments and that narrows the terms of discourse in order to facilitate such defeat.My analysis of the textbooks shows that the Advers

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The effects of exercise under hypoxia on cognitive function.

Increasing evidence suggests that cognitive function improves during a single bout of moderate exercise.In contrast, exercise under hypoxia may compromise the availability of oxygen.Given that brain function and tissue integrity are dependent on a continuous and sufficient oxygen supply, exercise under hypoxia may impair cognitive function.However,

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