by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 22, 2024 | For Scientists
Perhaps because we are at the threshold of medicine itself, and therefore at the junction between science and medicine, it might be worthwhile to view science in society from a broader perspective. I confess at the outset a lack of expertise. The societal forces that...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 21, 2024 | For Scientists
As difficult as it is to imagine a novel and useful set of facts, or some new way of doing things, the difficulty is much greater when what may prove useful is how nature does something. For unlike facts, or a made thing whose function we can easily test, we cannot...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 18, 2024 | For Scientists
This is the third of a group of articles that concerns science in relation to commerce and society in the case of medicine. We’ve already spoken about empiricism as one of the three forms of knowledge, but we haven’t said very much about what it looks...
by Dr Fredric Coe and Jill Harris, LPN | Oct 15, 2024 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists
We have already shown you that drinking just some sugar water will raise your urine calcium and at the same time lower your urine volume. The net effect will raise kidney stone risk by saturating stone forming salts. We obviously did not do a good enough job. It...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 12, 2024 | For Scientists
This is the second of a group of articles that concern science, commerce, and society in the case of medicine. The first outlines the relationships between the three components. This one focuses on the process of scientific research itself. Each has a podcast created...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 5, 2024 | For Scientists
This is the first of a group of posts about science. They are new in that I attempt to embed science in the larger context of society and commerce, and in the special case of medicine – the only case where I have real expertise. Examples are important to...
