Ever since Larry Summers broached the issue in 2005 of whether intrinsic biological factors might have something to do with the low entry rate of women into certain science disciplines I have been accumulating a file of clippings on this general issue. Just recently the controversy has come up again in two forms. First of […]
Science is the sacred cow of our age (if indeed there are any left), so any attack on the output of the scientific enterprise may be taken as an affront by practitioners of the art. Our concern, however, is not with the occasional forgivable accident or error, the inevitable consequence of research being conducted by […]
Following up on the previous newsletter post by Deborah Stokes, let me add my thoughts on some of the issues. For a long time I believed that there was a natural division within the field between standard neurofeedback training and stimulation. It was to be expected that the field of medicine would balk at relinquishing […]
I thought I would update everyone on some recent developments that were discussed at ISNR, which may be of interest/concern to many. There was an impromptu meeting held the first night, which was very enlightening for those of us who know little about FDA and State regulations concerning neurofeedback and the devices we use. As […]
This is not going to be an article on Intelligent Design. But Intelligent Design is a member of a class of concepts that appear in scientific dialogue without ever having earned their way in the usual fashion of combining theory with evidence. Now Intelligent Design just happens to be a concept that scientists would like […]
The Role of Amateurs in Science
There is one field in which an extensive mutually beneficial relationship has existed between amateurs and professionals. It is in astronomy, and the phenomenon was recently taken up in Science Magazine by John Bohannon (Volume 318, 12 October 2007, pp 192-3). Significantly, this symbiosis is occurring in a science in which we have only limited […]