Tag: Faulty syllogism

• The Tail and the Dog: Cause and Effect in Medicine

  Does the tail ever wag the dog? Is an issue ever so compelling that cause and effect are reversed? Or at least suspended..? Sorry, I wonder about such things. I remember reading a book many years ago by the British philospher A.J. Ayer called The Problem of Knowledge. In it he discusses a religious sect…

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  April 8, 2015

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  benign nevus, cancer, cancer as religion, cancer of the cervix, Cause and Effect, Faulty syllogism, HPV, lymph node, menopause, mole, Tail wagging the dog, The Problem of Knowledge