M y post today, perhaps typically cranky, was triggered by an essay at  Aeon  about the influence that the film Still Alice has had on thin...

M otivated by Vice President Biden's son's death at an early age from cancer, President Obama recently announced a new health initia...

A fascinating and clear description of one contemporary problem of sciences involved in 'complexity' can be found in an excellent d...

W hen I was a student at a school of public health in the late '70s, the focus was on chronic disease. This was when the health and dise...

O ur previous installments on genetic drift (a form of chance) vs natural selection (a deterministic force-like phenomenon) and the degree t...

I f, as I suggested yesterday , genetic drift is a rather unprovable or even metaphysical notion, then what is the epistemological standing...

I t has been about 50 years since Motoo Kimora and King and Jukes proposed that a substantial fraction of genetic variation can be selectiv...