Suicide and religion: did Durkheim commit the ecological fallacy, or did van Poppel and Day combine apples and oranges?

Article Abstract:

A comment on van Poppel and Day's article "A Test of Durkheim's Theory of Suicide - Without Committing the 'Ecological Fallacy'" is presented. The authors questioned Emile Durkheim's hypothesis that 19th-century European Catholicism protected its followers against suicide better than did Protestant sects. Supporting earlier critics, they argued that the suicide rates of Catholics and Protestants cannot be compared. However, unlike earlier critics, the authors employed a unique Netherlands data set that provides suicide rates by age, gender and religious affiliation.

Social aspects, Analysis, Suicide, Protestants, Catholics, Roman Catholics

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Drummond Hoyle Matthews (1931-97)

Article Abstract:

Marine geologist Drummond Matthews undertook national service in the Royal Navy before studying geology and petrology at Cambridge University, England. He worked as a geologist in the Antarctic, and then undertook a PhD. His work identifying seafloor magnetic strips as being due to ocean spreading was published in 1963. He became responsible for the Cambridge marine geophysics group, and in 1981 founded a research group on which the British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate was based.

Obituary, Geologists, Matthews, Drummond Hoyle

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Assault on arthritis

Article Abstract:

More people are finding relief from arthritis pain, whether it be the drug minocycline for rheumatoid arthritis or an injection of hyaluronic acid for osteoarthritis or other new treatments. The treatments are coming at an appropriate time, as the aging population will have greater need for them.

Care and treatment, Arthritis

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