Hale’S Necessity: It’S Indispensable, But is it Real?

But Is It Phenomenology?

But is it art?

It was in an evening class for painting that developmental biologist Enrico Coen began to think about the parallels between the genetic control of development and an artist’s design of a picture. When Coen’s teacher found him staring at a blank piece of canvas, Coen complained that he had no idea how to start. The teacher suggested he should begin by depicting the objects on the table with some...

But is it science?

Early years science education is not science, but a curricular construction designed to induct young children into a range of ideas and practices related to the natural world. While inquiry-based learning is an important approach to this, it is not of itself unique to science and there are a range of logico-mathematical constructions that come closer to the essence of science. In this paper we ...

Animal experimentation in sciences: sadistic nonsense or indispensable necessity?

The history of biomedical research clearly shows that, with exception of a very few, scientific findings could be realised only with the help of animal experiments. Unfortunately, in the past the life of animals was treated negligently and, at times, in fact criminally. Only the researchers' willingness to apply ethical principles toward laboratory animals could create a climate in which resear...

Frozen section in thyroid surgery: is it a necessity?

INTRODUCTION Many surgeons use intraoperative frozen-section (FS) biopsy of thyroid nodules to predict malignant disease, but the findings are often not in agreement with those of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy. Our objective in this study was to assess the value of intraoperative FS biopsy in patients with nodular disease of the thyroid gland. METHODS In this study, 203 patients underwe...