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I'm very excited to say my book "How #Kant Matters for #Biology" will soon be published! The thread below explains some of the key issues dealt with. I'm essentially resituating Kant in relation to biology, especially with key figures in the develop of biology in the in Britain. 
Please get in touch if you want to review, I can help get the book out to journals relevant for you.
Links for the book:
University of Wales Press: tinyurl.com/yckedjks
Chicago University Press: tinyurl.com/yeyrrthe
Blackwells: tinyurl.com/yze8puhd
Links for the book:
University of Wales Press: tinyurl.com/yckedjks
Chicago University Press: tinyurl.com/yeyrrthe
Blackwells: tinyurl.com/yze8puhd
Chapter 1 focuses on debates about Kant's influence on biology. I push back against how #influence tends to be understood in #philosophyofscience and argue that we need to recognise the importance of #misunderstanding - especially for Kant's philosophy. 1/10
COVID has unleashed a pandemic of inappropriate use of the RCT/meta-analysis model as an instrument of hyper-scepticism to manufacture doubt as a tool of destructive mass propaganda. 🧵
Let's use the Cochrane model to assess the evidence for the earth being round. Here are some common proofs for the earth being round. All belong to the lowest level of evidence. How can you say we can safely traverse the oceans without falling off the edge of the earth?
To demand that the RCT/meta-analysis model be applied to non-pharmacological settings or in engineered safety systems where they've never been a Gold Standard, is to weaponize it as an instrument of manufacturing doubt. You could question whether the earth is round by this method
