Tag Archives: Evolution

The Musée des Confluences: Celebrating Secularism and the Sciences

“…It is hard to think where else it would be possible to create such an institution with its relentless insistence that there is nothing special about humans, about the Christian faith or about the products of science and technology. This is not a didactic museum, except in the best sense of encouraging questions rather than… Read More »

King Canute and the Cult of Zero Infection

…Even a monarch cannot countermand the fundamentals of the universe. This is a lesson that some still struggle with in considering the goals of clinical medicine and public health. If they only had enough money, power and time, biomedical scientists could eliminate infection and, at least by implication, allow humans to live forever. Philosophers, ethicists… Read More »