Category Archives: Science & the Sciences

Your Body’s Wonderful Sewer System

No, I’m not talking about your alimentary canal. When your doctor (or Doctor Mom) checks to see if your “glands” are swollen, it is your lymph nodes that are being checked—and they are not glands. The lymph nodes, located throughout … Continue reading

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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

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