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It may seem odd to
assert that patient brooding and waiting for imaginative validation is the
proper way of doing science; after all, most professional scientists and
philosophers believe that the ...
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It seems to me that the learning and practice of
science naturally falls into approximately seven year units; and indeed the
same could be said about ‘life’. (Note: My operational definition of ‘se...
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The validity of science depends on the integrity
of the individual scientist. It is often supposed that science is a distinctive
process or system externally regulating the individual scientist; an...
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Advice to a young biologist who wants to be a
real scientist (rather than pursuing a successful career as a paid researcher
and administrator) is summarised under ten points: 1. Be an amateur; 2. R...
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TS Eliot predicted the
current corruption of science by pervasive dishonesty of motive and
communication when he described characteristic modern Men: They constantly try to escape/
From the darkne...
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We argue that a theory of the evolution of
Empathizing (E) and Systemizing (S) needs first to clarify that these are
personality traits, as distinct from cognitive abilities. The theory should
expl...
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Modern biology was initially established by Darwin’s Origin of Species
in 1859 and fully implemented by the Neo-Darwinian synthesis of natural
selection with genetics that solidified in the middle ...
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The broad diagnostic category of DSM Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is
heterogeneous, and we suggest that it can be subdivided into at least three
groups: those with Negative-emotionality who expe...
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