Author: Michael Egnor
Darwinian Medicine and Proximate and Evolutionary Explanations
Proximate explanations are medical science and provide the foundation for all medical treatments.
Jerry Coyne on Why Darwinian Medicine Is so…so…Amusing
Darwinian Medicine is a fertile science, and all sorts of insights emerge with surprising little thought and even less science.
Jerry Coyne and Darwinian medicine
Medicine depends on actual scientific understanding of disease mechanisms and therapeutics. Speculation about evolutionary origins is of no tangible value to the medical profession.
My Reply to Ben on Atheist Ennui
Atheism drove Nietzsche mad. It drives Jerry Coyne to nap.
Steven Novella on Michelle Bachmann and Teaching Evolution
By painting a false picture of monolithic evolutionary biologists on one hand, and snake-handling young earth creationists on the other, Novella and his ilk build a straw-man to advance their obvious goal.