Thinking Critically By Living In Other Worlds
“Thus I saw that most [people] only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.” – Johann Wolfgang von...
Challenging Who You Are
“People learn from people they love and remember the things that arouse emotion.” – Plato Who are you? How do you define yourself? What do you think makes you interesting? What about you gets...
Faith: Humankind’s Worst Trait For Science
“What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.” – Epictetus Before I head down this road, let me clarify a couple things: I’m not talking...
Science Is Absurd
When I say “absurd” I don’t mean the common usage of the word which means unreasonable or irrational. I mean it more in the philosophical sense. I guess I should have called it “Science Is...
APTA Combined Sections Meeting 2016 Review
You should have been there. Sorry that you’re lame…
Practice Template
One of the great things about the modern PT student is their level of education. Current programs, with the occasional unfortunate exception, do a pretty good job giving a proper foundation of the scientific...
Placebo-Fu
“An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel Ah placebo! Along with natural history and regression to the mean, it is one of the positive non-specific effects of...
Sure, But What Does It Predict?
He takes a bite of his bacon cheeseburger, “Medical providers don’t know how science works.” “Tell me about it!” I’m having dinner in a noisy sports bar in the Midwest with an applied mathematician with ties...
Treating Ghosts
A common argument that I hear is, “Since pain is a subjective interpretation, who cares how it improves?” The reasoning goes that the pain is real to the patient, so if a treatment makes improvement...