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...

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...

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 like. At heart...

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...

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 illustrate...