Category: Medicine
Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?
People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse?
Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water
Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life.
How We Balance Water and Sodium to Maintain Life
On their own, the laws of nature don’t tend toward life. To stay alive, living things utilize ingenious solutions.
Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science
What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting.
Human Vestigial Organs: Some Contradictions in Darwinian Thinking
Among these organs, the pronephros was taken as an outstanding illustration for the assertion that man is “a veritable walking museum of antiquities.”