Biomedical Explanations and the Fear of Fiction
a unified theory of something my friend sometimes says
B.E.s
My friend Mitali, of this substack, often says that I hate “biomedical explanations.” The term is something of a misnomer—for one thing, I obviously believe that the biomedical sciences are an essential lens through which to understand the world but also, more pertinently, because the phenomena that fa…
