Bruce Charlton's Notions

The one thing that modern culture hates and suppresses above all else, is a cheap and effective solution to a common problem. There are sc...

In the spirit of rediscovered self-experimentation trail-blazed by Seth Roberts - http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2010/06/04/a-great-chang...

Real science was built on a search for truth that was cooperative and competitive at the same time. Popper emphasized the mixture of hypothe...

The answer is - very little. A highly intelligent and motivated individual can get 'up to speed' in a subject, and begin work in i...

Analgesia = pain-killing. This is our culture, now. The culture of analgesia - in which relief of pain and suffering is primary - and not ...

Could it be that the differentiation of Church and State, the development of universities (secular in their essence, even when staffed by re...

One intractable debating point in science is the question of whether some things should *not* be researched. And indeed, there can be very...

Scientists generally assert their right to study anything they want-to study ('blue skies') as contrasted with the subject matter or...

While wanting to know the truth does not mean that you will find it; on the other hand, if scientists are not even *trying* to discover the ...

Scientific specialization is generally supposed to benefit the precision and validity of knowledge within specializations, but at the cost o...

Although I was 'brought up' on the religion of science, and retain great respect for philosophers such as Jacob Bronowski and Karl P...

Probably the most important bit of work I did as a scientist was the malaise theory of depression - http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/depress...

Science is now, basically, dead (my direct experience of science is inevitably partial - but the same mechanisms seems to have been at work ...

Charlton BG. Why are doctors still prescribing neuroleptics? QJM 2006; 99: 417-20. This is a version of my paper "Why are doctors sti...

* The Zombie science of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM): a personal retrospective Bruce G Charlton. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Prac...

* Review by Bruce G Charlton done for for Azure magazine - http://azure.org.il . This review was commissioned, but the editor didn't l...