Taber and Lodge’s 2006 paper provides powerful evidence that one’s prior beliefs shape one’s reception of new evidence in a manner that can best be described as ‘‘inadvertently dogmatic.’’ This is especially true for people who are well informed, which dovetails with findings going back to Converse (1964) showing political beliefs to be ideologically constrained (rigid) among the relatively wel...

In his perspective “Navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” Ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. This comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

<p>When the term "academy" is mentioned, first thing that comes to mind usually a university. In other words, academia often associated with universities. From an institutional perspective, university autonomous educational institution where professionals who are important for social continuity trained, and new information needed advancement of civilization science produced through scient...

Conventional sciences have brought forth a wealth of knowledge and benefits, but they have not always been clear and precise about their legitimate scope and methodological limitations. In contrast, new and critical approaches in modern sciences question and reflect their own presuppositions, dependencies, and constraints. Examples are quantum physics, theory and history of science, as well as ...

Social medicalization diminishes or even destroys the population’s autonomy regarding disease and healthcare and generates an endless demand on health services. It consists on an important challenge the SUS (Unified Health System). This article discusses the limits of biomedical knowledge and practices in relation to their contribution to the promotion of users’ autonomy and proposes some guide...

The paper offers an account of integrity as the capacity to deliberate and reflect usefully in the light of context, knowledge, experience, and information (that of self and others) on complex and conflicting factors bearing on action or potential action. Such an account of integrity seeks to encompass the moral complexity and conflict of the professional environment, and the need for compromis...