Here are a few typical eugenicist quotes from early last century: “It is an excellent plan to keep defective people in institutions for here they are not permitted to marry and bear children.” “[Scientists who are working at the task of improving the human race] would like to increase the birth rate of families having […]
One of the favorite targets of pseudoscientists is the peer review system. After all, it’s the system through which scientists submit their manuscripts describing their scientific findings or their grant proposals to their peers for an evaluation to determine whether they are scientifically meritorious enough to be published or to be funded. Creationists hate it. […]
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Grand Rounds again
The latest Grand Rounds has been posted at the Medical Humanities Blog. Time for your fix of the week’s best medical blogging.
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Good God Almighty….(From Sir David Attenborough’s “Life in the Undergrowth”) Add to: Slashdot del.icio.usredditnewsvineY! MyWeb
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The winners of the Alliance for Science essay contest that I mentioned a couple of months ago, where high school students were asked to write an essay of 1,000 words or less about the topic Why would I want my doctor to have studied evolution?, have been announced. My only question is why the actual […]
