Author: Walter McClure
Dr. Walter McClure, PhD, chairs the Center for Policy Design (www.centerforpolicy.org), a nonprofit that develops policy strategies to improve large systems such as health care, public education, and the economy.
The Right to Be Born Wanted
In the February/March 2021 issue of Free Inquiry, S. T. Joshi wrote, “It is surprising—and dismaying—how little attention antiabortionists pay to the actual person carrying the fetus they are so determined to preserve.” There is another actual person even more forgotten. In the years of bitter argument over abortion, from ancient times to the present, …
On Kuhn and COVID-19
Philosopher Reginald Williams uses Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to flog COVID-19 research and policy as being stifled by authoritarian politics suppressing all but the establishment view (“Thomas Kuhn and COVID-19,” FI, October/November 2020). Kuhn’s book was a wildfire hit among nonscientists. Among scientists, not so much. The failings in Kuhn’s understanding …