T he NIH-based Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has for a long time been funding the Big Data kinds of science that is growing like m...

W hen there isn't an adequate formal theory for determining cause and effect, we often must rely on searches for statistical association...

S o, apparently even sea anemones have personalities.  The idea that non-human animals can be measurably, say, bolder or shyer than others o...

Y esterday, we discussed some history of research on the cause and predictability of cancer.  Today, we'll try to raise some questions ...

C ancers are a highly unpredictable set of diseases, representing a fundamental problem in understanding causation that Tomasetti and Vogels...

W e spend the year writing (ranting?) about the passing scene in science, the good and the bad, the wheel-spinning and the hopeful. But we t...

P eople rarely like to talk openly about flatulence--it's a topic that, one might say, just doesn't smell right.  But it's a n...