Blind faith

2017 ◽  
pp. 95-100
Keyword(s):  
Blind Faith

Medical Anti-Shock Trousers: Blind Faith, Poor Judgment and Patient Jeopardy

1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Mattox
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Clinical Trials ◽  
State Legislators ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
Interventional Treatment ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
American College Of Surgeons ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Historic Development ◽  
Blind Faith

The oft-repeated historic development of the pneumatic lower body compression suit (MAST, PASG) for the presumed treatment of hypotension has been well-documented by McSwain(l). While the experimental and anecdotal clinical observations of Crile, Gardner, Wangenstein and Kaplan are interesting, they are not prospective, controlled, randomized clinical trials in humans(2,3,4,5). In the early 1970s, the EMS community was ripe for the bandwagon reflex to grasp at any and all gimmicks and gadgets which became available, regardless of a lack of evidence regarding their safety or danger to patients. Inventions such as the esophageal obturator airway, various darts, MAST, external cardiac bumpers, percutaneous trachea obturators, and many others simultaneously were thrust upon the unsuspecting and unprotected patient community. Some of these innovations may have been beneficial but others were dangerous. Contending that some intervention in a “life threatening, good Samaritan situation” was better than no interventional treatment or “stabilization” at all, the paramedics' blind faith in these modalities persisted. The Medical Device Amendment of 1976 (6), which requires safety and efficacy for devices, similar to that long in effect for new drugs, had not yet been enacted into law to require premarketing clearance of new medical devices. Building on blind faith and premature recommendations regarding in the unproven concept of MAST, the EMS community exercised poor judgment in recommending to state legislators that this unproven device be “required equipment” on board ambulances. Furthermore, this small cadre of “special interest groups” lobbied to have the MAST mandated as essential equipment in trauma centers(7,8). Although the minutes of the trauma planning meetings do not reflect the debate at the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, numerous voices of advised constraint, said “go slow” on including the MAST as part of the ATLS course and the ACS optimal resources document.

scholarly journals Evaluating Return On Investment For Software Process Improvement Projects

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Shoemaker ◽  
Gregory W. Ulferts ◽  
Patrick T. Wirtz ◽  
Antonio Drommi
Keyword(s):  
Process Improvement ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
Software Process ◽  
Software Process Improvement ◽  
Simple Approach ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Font Size ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Right ◽  
Blind Faith

<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-indent: 0in; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This article presents a simple approach that will allow decision-makers to evaluate the return on investment of software process improvement prior to launching such an effort. Obviously, it will be easy to tell ten years up the road whether the right decision was made. But a CEO, or CIO contemplating laying out six, or seven figures for the additional personnel and resources to conduct SPI is not in a position to make that call and the wise ones will not be led into it by blind faith. The problem is assessing the risks and returns of such a project in terms and perspective that a non-technical decision-maker can understand. We believe our instrument serves that purpose. </span></span></p>

Blind faith

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Javier Rodrigo
Keyword(s):  
Blind Faith

Bible translation and the centrality of the synagogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 161-226
Author(s):  
Michah Gottlieb
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Education ◽  
Bible Translation ◽  
Moses Mendelssohn ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Blind Faith

This chapter analyzes Zunz’s Bible translation, situating it within the context of Zunz’s critique of the traditional Ashkenazic system of Jewish education that he experienced personally. Zunz’s assessment of Moses Mendelssohn and his vision for Jewish education that steers a middle path between the “sham Enlightenment“ of Jewish youth and the “blind faith” of older Jewish traditionalists are presented. The role of gender in Jewish education and the centrality of the synagogue in Zunz’s Bible translation project are explored. Zunz’s Bible translation is set in relation to that of his teacher, the Bible critic Wilhelm De Wette as a way of comparing liberal German Protestantism and liberal German Judaism in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. It is shown how Zunz uses Protestantism and Catholicism as exemplary categories aligning his vision of Judaism with Protestantism while rejecting forms of Judaism that he deems “Catholic.”

scholarly journals Hoping against Hope: Dealing with Hopelessness in Ancient Times and Today †

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
Joerg Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Blind Faith

The hope of Abraham was “hope against hope,” the apostle Paul notes in a famous passage in his letter to the Romans 4:18. Such is the hope of the underdog, whose hope is not backed up by the powers that be, manifest by the prevalent empires of the day. Any discussion of hope in this context needs to deal with the limits of hope that have been expressed powerfully by Miguel De La Torre in his book Embracing Hopelessness (2017). As a result, the faith of Abraham that led to hope against hope cannot be blind faith, or what has sometimes been called “the power of positive thinking.” COVID-19 has once again reinforced this insight. Only when the challenges and the roadblocks to faith and hope are seen and embraced, and when false hope is exposed for what it is, can glimpses of real hope break through.

Blind Faith and Political Rationalism in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

2008 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-189
Author(s):  
Peter J. Ahrensdorf
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Classical Analysis ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
The World ◽  
Liberal Rationalism ◽  
Oedipus At Colonus ◽  
Blind Faith

AbstractPolitical conflicts around the world increasingly reflect a religious challenge to liberal rationalism. Given the tendency of modern political rationalism to underestimate the power of religion, it seems reasonable to consider the classical analysis of religious antirationalism set forth with great clarity in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. The play seeks to demonstrate that religious antirationalism—as exemplified by Oedipus—is self-contradictory and self-destructive, but also that it is rooted in such enduring human traits as our awareness of our mortality, our hope for immortality, and our angry refusal to accept our mortality. Sophocles advocates a sober and cautious political rationalism that recognizes the dangers of religious passion to political life, but also the permanence of religious passion within political life. Such a political rationalism, embodied by Theseus, constitutes a middle way between a blind piety which rejects reason and an excessively hopeful political rationalism which underestimates the power of religion.

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