Are we islands? What responsibility do we have to participate in our communities? During the COVID social distancing period, how do we define ‘essential’? Is there a continuum of behaviors that are acceptable? What do we ‘owe’ ourselves and our communities and how does that affect our behavior? I consider…

What is the truth? What is “proof”? How is “truth” different from “facts”, or “evidence”? How do we know if we really know what we think we know? During my scientific training, I learned that we rarely “prove” anything. Science generates evidence and then we decide whether that evidence is…