Main description:

Science is not a collection of facts. Science is the process by which we draw inferences from facts. Volume I of Logic and Critical Thinking in the Biomedical Sciences invites readers to linger over a collection of common observations to see what inferences can be drawn, when one applies a bit of deductive logic. If we just think about what we observe, it is often possible to discover profound biomedical insights.
Volumes 1 and 2 of Logic and Critical Thinking in the Biomedical Sciences are written for biomedical scientists and college-level students engaged in any of the life sciences, including bioinformatics and related data sciences.

Contents:

1. Introduction to biomedical logic 2. Drawing inferences from photographs 3. Inferences drawn from organismal development 4. Inferences drawn from temporal sequences 5. Finding relationships among biological entities 6. Drawing inferences from classifications and ontologies 7. Biomedical advances achieved by reducing class noise 8. How a little logic could have corrected long-held misbeliefs