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Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.
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Over many years of research, Anita Williams Woolley, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon University, discovered that the qualities we often associate with great teams — individual intelligence, certain personality traits, personal motivation and satisfaction, and a feeling of cohesion and camaraderie — are not always reliable predictors of team success.
Faculty who attack Israel in the classroom, disrupt Israeli lecturers, and boycott Israeli scholars are the greater danger by far.
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