Woo medicine kills 27 Jan 2010 A nice roundup from New Zealand; note the case of the baby with meningitis. The case is a coroner’s case. Science
Epistemology Pattern recognition: neither deduction nor induction 27 Jan 201328 Jan 2013 It occurs to me as I read Rosenberg’s Philosophy of Science (2005), that we tend in that field to classify epistemic activities into two kinds: induction (about which we have many arguments as to its warrantability) and deduction (with many arguments about its applicability). But I believe there is something else that… Read More
Evolution On the problem of the problem of evil and Darwin 15 Mar 2011 In yet another essay reprising his argument that theists can be good Darwinians (a position I concur with, incidentally), Michael Ruse makes the following comment, based on a book by Karl Giberson and Francis Collins, The Language of Science and Faith: Straight Answers to Genuine Questions: Where I do want… Read More
Book Scientist’s Operating Manual – Introduction 30 Sep 2010 If you open any number of science textbooks, introductions to the philosophy of science, or books that attack pseudoscience, you will find a discussion of What The Scientific Method Is. For it is assumed from the start that either there is a scientific method, or that there is not and… Read More
It is perhaps , particularily significant that the wonderful intertubes preserved the appropriate hyphenation In the ultimate word of this sentence! “Unhealthy eye colours — green, white, yellow, orange or hazel — can be changed, they say, through dietary modifications. This has yet to be demon-strated.” I await the Demon-stration!!