Janet Stemwedel at Adventures in Science and Ethics has asked scientists what they (as opposed to philosophers) mean by "theory". I intend to write how philosophers have use the term sometime soon, when this grant application is done and a paper revised, but if you are a scientist, go visit her and comment.
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I just had a chance to check in on a triad of posts by Prof Janet Stemwedel at Adventures in Ethics and Science (1, 2, 3) on the ethical issues of the conduct of studies, particularly clinical trials, supported by the US NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM).
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when this grant application is done
Running out of pencils, huh?
and books... gotta buy books. They don't grow on trees, you know.
Well, strictly speaking books are trees, aren't they? (or at least produced by pulping trees).