Category: EBM and CQI

Liberty and Equality,……tenets of Western Civilization that actually compete?  Does predominance of one ‘right’ necessarily diminish the other, i.e., a zero-sum game?  “Full liberty for wolves is death to lambs” he wrote.  Positive liberty (freedom to do ‘X or Y’), or negative liberty (freedom from ‘X or Y’)…..?  Enlightenment or Romanticism?  Georg Hegel or Karl…

What is it about fluoridated water that incites such intense reactions from relatively small opponent-groups (pro-Fl vs. anti-Fl)? The 2019 manuscript by Green et al (attached) is still a top citation in JAMA – maternal fluoride intake may adversely affect offspring IQ,….that is concerning. Schluter et al’s recent manuscript from New Zealand (attached) captured my reading-eye because the word “neoliberal” is…

What’s it like to be a bat?  I might be one of your few acquaintances who knows,..….sort of**. Thomas Nagel inquired just that in an oft-cited essay (1974).  His point is consciousness is a phantasmagoric experience,…..the one and only thing you and I can be utterly certain of,…..yet a largely inexplicable phenomena despite efforts of…

Science is not about predicting,….it’s about explaining.  Not explaining what is always true, but rather clarifying what is false. A discouraging feature of mass movements is leaders coaxing people into sacrificing the present for some hallowed, predicted future.  Whose blood, sweat, and tears (real or metaphorical) are shed?  Who suffers?  Be wary of those who preach historical inevitability,…