Category: Medicine
Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence
I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein.
Can We Define the Soul Out of Existence?
Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain.
Francis Collins’s “Road to Folly”
How does someone as inept as Francis Collins (and I’m being charitable) have the gall to tell anyone else how to become wise?
The Machine Model in Medicine
The unfortunate fact is, there really are those two conflicting sides in medicine.
We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”
Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors.