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In medicine, I think evidence-based research and - crucial, this - evidence-based practice is quite robust. Insofar as social scientific veracity is concerned, the wide range of variables does...
09 September 2017 8,168 6 View
I think that excessively overpaid TV news presenters in the UK and USA who feign socialist leanings is shameful.
05 May 2017 3,643 13 View
A few years ago, I reviewed the manuscript of a good article in which "wicked problems" were of central concern. Despite my best efforts, I was unable to figure out why the term "wicked"...
09 September 2016 2,484 1 View
I am writing a book on social pedagogy and social justice. I believe it is justifiable to regard some moral statements as irrefutably correct; transcendental, if you will. Such statements operate...
09 September 2016 9,293 0 View
What comes to mind for me here is the debate on the use of arguably (?) life-saving medical data collected by Nazi doctors in concentration camps.
08 August 2016 8,549 73 View
Tobacco companies have long tried to cloud scientific research into the well-documented harmful effects of smoking. These companies have also produced counter arguments based on their own...
08 August 2016 351 3 View
If the brain is anatomy and the mind is physiology (debatable, of course) then surely the diagnosis of psychosomatic disorders is an oxymoron. This forces the question of whether or not mind can...
08 August 2016 3,212 35 View
Popper did not think so. However, I think that social scientific predictions can be plausible if long established prior and contemporary trends (income inequality as a predictor of variable...
07 July 2016 2,436 6 View
Could anyone please explain to me why, for the past month or so, even though my reads keep on rising, my RG score has dropped by - if my estimate is correct - from around 35. 2 to about 33....
06 June 2016 7,623 1 View
The "one child, one cookie" ethic - based on Rawl´s principle of distributive justice - is literally followed at birthday parties. If the same ethic were applied to global economic sharing, I...
05 May 2016 7,602 2 View
There are those who argue that intellectual argumentation should be objective and, in that regard, value-free. I personally disagree but I recognize that my "opponents" have a point. Or do they?
03 March 2016 1,107 2 View
It strikes me that when adults organize a children´s birthday party, the one child, one cookie principle applies. Yet in the adult world of market economics this intuitively right ethic is nowhere...
02 February 2016 4,353 17 View
I teach statistics to graduate students. Most of them are "scared" of mathematics and have, in a sense, "given up". before they begin the course. My hypothesis (very speculative, to be sure!) is...
01 January 2016 8,768 4 View
Is not the ´psycho´ appendage misleading here because it signals that something in the brain is not ´real´ in the same way that, for example, something in the liver is?
01 January 2016 9,221 0 View
While QS TopUniversity ranks, as at 2015, Oxford and Cambridge as the best universities in the UK, I wonder if this assessment is, at least in part, based on an urban (or more strictly speaking, a...
01 January 2016 6,448 11 View
There is a huge clinical literature on this mental disorder, but the problem stubbornly and tragically persists. I wonder if it is strongly grounded in amygdala pathology.
11 November 2015 8,994 24 View
My students often find it hard to name a politician, living or dead, who practices this ethic. Nelson Mandela comes to mind. Who else?
11 November 2015 4,243 0 View
It is my impression that undergraduate courses in Medicine are, dependent on the country where the study takes place, either described as bachelor or doctoral degrees. I this is so, is a British...
10 October 2015 7,264 0 View
I see brain as anatomy and mind as physiology, just as, for example, lungs as anatomy and breathing as physiology.
10 October 2015 1,338 6 View
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09 September 2015 3,152 1 View
I recently read that UK immigration officers asked a family doctor (a so-called GP) to confirm a patient’s address. I think the patient is a non-UK resident. If that information is correct,...
01 January 1970 3,736 1 View
