From Doug Axe, Here's Permission to Listen to Your Inner "Common Scientist"

"Common science," akin to common sense, is what protein chemist Douglas Axe calls an activity we've all grown up doing: observing phenomena in the world, analyzing them using models in our mind to see how they work, refining our models as more data comes in, sometimes overturning our understanding of a thing when the data convincingly turns against the way we thought of it.

This requires no training, no PhD. We do it naturally from childhood on.

In his new book, Undeniable: How Biology Conf...