PARADIGM: A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. Since the 1960s, paradigm has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework, as when Nobel Laureate David Baltimore cited the work of two colleagues that “really established a new paradigm for our understanding of the causation of cancer.”(new heritage dictionary)
This weblog is intended to be a podium from which conversation will occur about the factors that support the healthy evolution of scientific thought, practice, and research. Though the focus will be on the science of human medicine, many of the observations and conclusions will apply to other branches of science.
The author has thirty years of active practice in the medical arts and is an avid observer of what makes for “good” science (i.e. science with integrity and humility) and that which makes for “bad” science (dogmatic, prejudicial, driven by profit motive and/or political concerns).
Welcome. Tune in for at least weekly postings.
