TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - i LP - i DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2021-323458 VL - 106 IS - 12 AU - Nick Brown Y1 - 2021/12/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/106/12/i.abstract N2 - ‘He’s doing it again’—what a cryptic way to launch into what should be a gentle, easily digestible wind down as the year draws to a close. Perhaps though, not as knight’s move as it first appears: let’s go back a step or two.Without over generalising, school days (and I’m including university) are largely about facts. Not just the accumulation and retention of ‘facts’ but the nurturing of the ‘fact as truth’ myth. Harsh maybe, but (think of the pre-Copernican view of the galaxy) while science opens doors, its bluntness (or at least lack of precision) as a tool is exposed in situations inherently insoluble from an empirical standpoint. There’s an expression in Swedish, ‘kantig’, derived from ‘fyr kantig’ meaning 4-sided or, literally square/literal/inflexible: the sorts of examples to which I’m referring are those where being ‘kantig’ (an advantage in many fora) simply doesn’t cut the mustard. … ER -