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The flaws in the blueprint of life

Is genetic determinism misguided?

Omari Edwards
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The overdiagnosis crisis part 3

False positives, real profits: the dark side of cancer screening

Cancer screening is selling us sickness

H. Gilbert Welch
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The overdiagnosis crisis part 2

Cancer screening harms more people than it saves

We screen. We worry. We don’t live longer

H. Gilbert Welch
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The overdiagnosis crisis part 1

We are overcounting cancer cases by vast amounts

Screening creates cancers, and it’s not clear that it “saves lives”

H. Gilbert Welch
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Naming wont solve mortality

Naming won’t solve mortality

Healthcare is about more than diagnosis

Ian James Kidd
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The way human life is created is changing and the world isnt ready

The way human life is created is changing, and the world isn't ready

On pregnant men, birthing fathers and reproductive technology

Suki Finn
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On Humans and Animals

Mary Midgley and Peter Singer discuss humanity and animal rights.

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The Uniqueness of Humanity

Evolution may have no purpose, but do we?

Nicholas Maxwell
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Evolution

What is Progress?

Why evolutionary progress is a tautology.

Eva Aldea
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Marcel Theroux

The Artifice of Eternity

What might immortality look like?

Marcel Theroux
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The Persecution of Heretics

How dissenting doctors are being silenced.

David Healy
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Beyond The Selfish Gene

We need to reconsider our theories of evolution.

Eva Jablonka
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evolution is not driven by random mutations alone

There's more to evolution than natural selection

Life's complexity cannot be explained by random mutations alone

James A. Shapiro
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Pain destroys the mind-body problem

Why the mind-body divide falls short

Sabrina Coninx
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Life doesn't have to be biological

No one has a good understanding of what 'life' is

Sara Walker
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Medical trials are not the whole truth

Medical trials are not the whole truth

The potential and limitations of evidence-based medicine

Trisha Greenhalgh
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Your genes do not define you

When chance, not reason, steers science

Gregory Radick
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How to make gene editing ethical

Gene editing, space travel, and the end of suffering

Samuel McKee
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Did Schrödinger solve the mystery of life?

We can’t find life without knowing what it is

Samuel McKee
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Culture is driven by evolution

Culture is driven by evolution

Biology's false binary

Ruth Mace
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The risks of erasing our desire with Ozempic

We should tame our cravings with imagination instead

Uku Tooming
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How your beliefs change what you perceive

The holistic mind and the myth of the given

Christopher Mole
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The Great Right Brain Debate

Iain McGilchrist interviewed by Scott Barry Kaufman

Scott Barry Kaufman
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Breaking the silence on illness

Can we express what illness is like?

Havi Carel
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