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Biomedical Explanations and the Fear of Fiction

Biomedical Explanations and the Fear of Fiction

a unified theory of something my friend sometimes says

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Eleanor Stern
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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…

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