Category: Medicine
John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism
I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority.
What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be.
Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain
A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once.
Frightening Recommendations from Francis Collins
The former NIH head thinks the government didn’t exert enough control during the last pandemic.
Shawn Otto and the “War on Science”
If evolutionary theory is so fundamental to medical research, why has no evolutionary biologist ever won a Noble Prize in physiology or medicine?