Commentary 2

[摘要] I think Kevork Hopayian, for all his erudition, has got a problem. He is seeing legitimate attempts to improve the scientific understanding of reality as attacks on science itself. Many people, especially people working in general medical practice, find orthodox models inadequate to describe the subtlety, complexity and (in Iona Heath's sense1) the mystery of face-to-face human experience. This is important today because so many official initiatives and media attitudes are founded on a profoundly unscientific illusion that science can provide definitive answers to human problems. So attempts to improve the models are not merely legitimate but essential if science is to make progress. Hopayian provides here an example of the almost paranoid counter-response of those who see themselves as protectors of the sepulchre of science from heretical attack.

[学科分类] 卫生学