Category: Medicine
New York Times: When Politics Gets in the Way of Science
We continually see unscientific assertions among the Times‘s own writers about a simple matter easily discerned from any embryology textbook.
War on Humans: The Next Frontier
"I consider it the most important — and dangerous — litigation in bioethics today."
I Cannot Tell a Taradiddle: Karl Giberson Replies, Feebly, on the Myth of Human "Tails"
Much gratitude is owed to Colby College historian of science Joseph Martin for his candid defense of lying in the context of public discussions of science.
The Myth of Human "Tails": A Physician and Surgeon’s Perspective
I have operated on quite a few children (at least five) with what physicist Karl Giberson would call a "tail."
Are Humans Ever Born with “Perfectly Formed” Tails?
In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin cited the tailbone (coccyx) as a supposed vestigial feature.