There is a direct correlation between science and survival. Medicine is a branch of science. Access to it keeps us alive in situations when we would have otherwise died. Infant mortality is still heartbreakingly high where war or poverty makes medical care scarce. But even the most powerful medieval queen could not have saved a baby in desperate need of antibiotics, an incubator, or emergency surgery in a clean, well-lit operating room. Whatever else may have played a part in our survival, there is no question that Helena and I are the beneficiaries of the scientific method. It’s this
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