Marcy's Musings

I’m realizing it has been three months since I’ve written here. I try to make it monthly. If you’ve been following me on Facebook you hopefully know why I’ve been absentee – in brief my life was turned upside down and I unexpectedly bought a home and moved. I intend this post to be the exciting conclusion to my Science and Falsehood series. Allow me to recap briefly. In Part one, I discussed what is academically referred to as nomothetic structures, which is basically the idea that there are multiple different ways to know and that each way of knowing rests on a specific set of assumptions (the bottom most turtle). I also introduced the idea of “The Tabacco Strategy,” in which poor science conducted outside of the main stream community lends an air of legitimacy to ideas/agenda’s that developed from other ways of knowing – using science for support of a pre-existing ideology rather than illumination of the facts. In part two, I applied these ideas examining the standards of care for ...