Category: Culture & Ethics
Jerry Coyne on the Scientific Method and Religion
The scientific method — the empirical systematic theory-based study of nature — has nothing to so with some religious inspirations — and everything to do with Christian (and Jewish) inspiration.
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.