…One eminent biologist of mathematical bent reviewing The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype was startled to find a scientific work apparently free of logical errors and yet containing not a single line of mathematics; he could come to no other conclusion than that, incompreh...
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…for the generation and moderation of beliefs. Spiritual beliefs are considered by some to be contentious candidates for scientific examination, yet Berntson argues that spiritual beliefs can be identified, measured, and subjected to scientific investigation in the same fashion as...
…ilance, I argue that they are wrong." HUGO MERCIER is a cognitive scientist working for the French National Center for Scientific Research in Lyon. Previously, he did a postdoc in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania, and another one a...
…n will need to consider a regulatory framework that permits access and availability to cannabis medicine, therapies and scientific studies. The European Parliament explicitly stated support for the WHO's recommendations to institutionalize the medical and scientific uses of cann...
…tion of a young man who had shot a corpse, believing that it was still alive. The case presented a series of perplexing scientific and logical riddles: When is a person who has been mortally wounded actually dead? Can you kill a man who is already dead? If not, can you attempt to...
There was, of course, an objective, scientific explanation for what happened on the stage of Carnegie Hall. According to a textbook, Physiological Psychology, “It is now rather well accepted that ‘itch’ is a variant of the pain experience and employs the same_ sensory mechanisms....
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4.2.12 WC: 191694 conviction, on the ground that the prosecution had failed to prove the scientific validity of its theory. We later learned that Harry Shorstein—who argued that appeal—had information that should have led him to know or at least suspect that the test results he...
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many of whom offered scientific testimony about the cause of