Tag: pain
A Crucial Design Difference in Vertebrate Nerves
Consideration of the basic characteristics of nerve impulse propagation suggests that the speed of conduction in mammals is close to the maximum possible.
Doctor’s Diary: Fear Is a Gift from Our Designer
As a physician, I have cared for many patients who were fearful. Often with good reason, but not always.
Darwin Double-Crossed: The Design of the Human Nervous System
Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting.
Bioethicists Urge a Grotesque Abuse of Animals
Once again, we find that if radicals envision it, eventually we will try to go there.
Fetal Pain – Another Case Where the “Science Denial” Insult Has Been Misapplied
It’s a blatant untruth that “fetuses cannot feel pain,” as neuroscientist Michael Egnor explains.