12.03.08
Egnor and Darwinian medicine
Neurosurgeon: Evolutionary medicine = ad-hoc and untestable guesses
Evolutionary explanations are merely stories appended to the proximate (scientific) explanations. They contribute nothing to the scientific understanding of the disease beyond the contribution of the proximate explanations.
Evolutionary stories are ad-hoc and generally untestable guesses, and offer no meaningful framework for science. The proximate explanations (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, microbiology, etc.) are the framework for science.
Strategies for disease treatment and prevention depend on data from the relevant medical sciences, not on speculative stories about origins.
Darwinian medicine is scientifically vacuous, and the Darwinian theory of human origins is the antithesis of human exceptionalism and human dignity
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