By Matthew Feeg
Modern advertisers frequently claim that their herbal remedies are “all natural” or “contain all natural ingredients.” But what do these claims really mean? When we want to know this, we must find a way to define the word ‘natural.’ In the sense that the marketers want to use it, it seems to mean “not artificial”… Continue reading Natural (non)remedies
By Matthew Feeg
The Sept. 22, 2011 issue of the Gauntlet ran an article entitled Limits of the Scientific Method by Louis Joubert. I have found this article to be most erroneous in its criticism of science. Part of this stems from the failure to clearly define science. The author proposes to “stick to the definition that seems… Continue reading A science of progress is a reliable science