Category: Medicine
Mouse can regenerate tissue like reptile
| October 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, News |
“The African spiny mouse appears to regenerate ear tissue in much the way that a salamander regrows a limb that has been lost to a predator, …” more
From The Best Schools: Gifted neurosurgeon Ben Carson fails Political Correctness 101 at Emory U
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Medicine |
“So if Carson thinks that “Darwinian evolution, or any form of pure materialism, undermines the basis of ethics,” he could call Ruse as a witness.” more
Science cheating even in med school? That’ll hit YOU in the gut one day!
| March 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Medicine, News |
“a crisis in medicine and the related disciplines that stems from a lack of integrity in academia. ” more
Gallup Poll of 676,000 shows the most religious Americans have highest well-being
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Medicine, News, Religion |
“The statistically significant relationship between religiousness and wellbeing holds up after controlling for numerous demographic variables.” more
“At least 1 percent of human genes can be shut down without causing serious disease.”
| February 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Medicine, News |
Will they end up being called “vestigial genes”? more
Your appendix: The king of vestigial organs has a job again
| January 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Medicine, News |
“Individuals without an appendix were four times more likely to have a recurrence of Clostridium difficile, exactly as Parker’s hypothesis predicted.” more
Michael Shermer: “New research on self-control explains the link between religion and health”
| December 26, 2011 | Posted by News under Medicine, News, Religion |
The reason Shermer’s approach won’t usually work is that the people who need the help don’t even want to “will themselves to loftier purposes.” more
British Muslim med students refuse to attend Darwin propaganda lectures
| November 27, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Medicine |
Hey, wait a minute: Why is Darwinism on the med school course anyway? more
“Most proteins that drive disease processes are actually undruggable.”
| October 12, 2011 | Posted by News under Medicine, News |
Which is why progress will depend mainly on outsmarting the proteins with new strategies. more
Study: God loves me, so I worry less …
| August 7, 2011 | Posted by News under Medicine, Religion |
To a religious person, guilt is an objective state, not a pathology. It’s no help to say, “You shouldn’t feel guilty …” A justifiable response from the patient would be “How the hell do you know? I’m mainly interested in what God thinks.” more
He said it: Neurosurgeon on Darwinism
| July 21, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Medicine |
Darwinism is a trivial idea that has been elevated to the status of the scientific theory that governs modern biology. – Michael Egnor, Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook Also: Egnor on Why Darwinian medicine is a dead loss more
Why Darwinian medicine is a dead loss
| June 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Medicine |
In “Darwinian Medicine and Proximate and Evolutionary Explanations,” at Evolution News & Views (June 25, 2011), neurosurgeon Mike Egnor makes a critical distinction between proximate explanations and evolutionary explanations,s they apply to medicine: more
“Natural selection selects for autism” thesis revisited
| June 21, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science |
Remember, autism was – one author claims – a useful adaptation in “evolutionary history”? Caroline Crocker at AITSE discusses that in the most recent newsletter, after addressing the theories of autism’s cause that are worth taking seriously: Jared is writing his first paper as a doctoral candidate and so, should be given credit for a… more
Tenured pundits: Modern medicine needs Darwinism
| April 19, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Medicine |
On the other hand, … modern medicine owes nothing to Darwinism. For one thing, mortality from infectious diseases in the West began declining before 1859, due in large part to public health measures such as the provision of sewage disposal systems and safe water supplies.10 It also included personal hygiene, as the story of Hungarian… more
Free download of Johns Hopkins medic’s book on “jumping genes”
| April 14, 2011 | Posted by News under 'Junk DNA', Medicine |
Mobile DNA, Finding Treasure in Junk, by Haig H. Kazazian is available free for download at Barnes and Noble: In Mobile DNA, leading geneticist Haig Kazazian thoroughly reviews our current understanding of the substantial role mobile genetic elements play in genome and organism evolution and function. He offers an accessible intellectual history of mobile DNA,… more
Dover a half decade later: And what difference did it really make?
| June 27, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Christian Darwinism, Darwinism, Medicine |
A friend offers observations about the Dover (Kitzmiller) decision (2005). I didn’t cover it, because everyone else did, and I was writing a book, under contract, about something else, basically. Just as well. Everyone else who cared seemed to be on the scene already, and I was otherwise occupied. Essentially, modern American culture is biased toward… more
‘Sceptics’ — but not about science?
| May 29, 2010 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Creationism, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Religion, Science |
I did an interview recently with the Sceptics’ Society of Birmingham (UK) on the relationship between science and religion, which may be of interest to people here. The interview was conducted over Skype, which explains some of the alien sounds, especially from my end, even though my interlocutor and I were separated by a mere… more
More coffee!! Your doctor needs to know what would have worked for someone’s hypothetical reconstruction of Stone Age man before she can treat you effectively …
| December 14, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary psychology, Medicine |
Apparently, evolutionary biologists/psychologists (if there is any difference, I would be glad to know*) are trying to get jobs adding to the cost burden of medical schools, fronting their speculations to doctors in training, a friend advises. See this story by Daniel Cressey (“Groups say med school training must evolve,” Nature Medicine 15, 1338 (2009)… more