The hullabaloo surrounding the publication of my most recent book, The Language Myth, in September 2014, has taken even me by surprise. The book is a rebuttal of an earlier, very famous book, The ...

Jeff Goldsmith reviews “Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong and What It Means for Our Health” by Marty Makary, Trump’s new FDA commissioner, which explores how the politics of science can slow ...

Before the revolution triggered by Nicolaus Copernicus, a 16th-century cleric, the Earth was the unmoving centre of the cosmos. Afterwards, it was one of a family of planets swinging through space.

PARADIGM” comes from Latin, paradigma — to compare, to show alongside something else. A paradigm then is a metaphor. Shifting a paradigm means changing the metaphor. When old assumptions, concepts, ...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) indicates a paradigm shift in military research and application, echoing the revolutionary scientific framework presented by Thomas Kuhn in his ...

The exponential growth in scientific knowledge, and the myriad technological innovations it has spawned over the past two centuries, has given rise to the expectation that scientific progress will ...

In 1848, the world was viewed through the lens of steam engines and clockwork. When Marx and Engels formulated their critique of capital, they did so within a “Newtonian” universe ~ a world of solid, ...

How do we organize elements in a system? One way is through the lens of hierarchy, which presupposes levels, a top-down ranking of elements. Another is homoarchy, which permits one (and only one) ...