Category Archives: Science & the Sciences
“Healthcare,” Health, Sickness: A Brief Essay on Our Confusion in These Matters
In the western world we have dissected ourselves into separate, sometimes disconnected parts: mind/body/spirit, most pertinently. We treat our bodies as we do our automobile: we maintain our body to some or no degree and when it fails (or we … Continue reading
Scientism, Secular Humanism, Hubris
I am ever more troubled by the hubris displayed by politicians, government officials, academicians (who, for the most part, conspicuously carry the label “intellectual“) and, more recently, barons of large financial institutions, both public and private. I assert this hubris … Continue reading
The Pavellas Perspective 