Kas Thomas

Kas Thomas

Big Think Contributor

Kas Thomas is a longtime cognitive dissident and menace to sacred-cow-kind. A graduate of the University of California at Irvine and Davis (with degrees in biology and microbiology) and a former University of California Regents' Fellow, He has been a Technology Evangelist for Adobe Systems and currently operates Author-Zone.com, a resource site for indie authors.

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Many neuropsychiatric ailments that are assumed to have a major genetic component don't seem to have one.
If degree-of-blindness is measurable (which it is), then researchers should, in fact, measure it and disclose it as part of any study that's purported to be "blinded."
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Long-term antidepressant use may be an invitation to diabetes.
The vastness of our scientific ignorance is especially evident when it comes to explaining how life arose on earth.
After almost a century, cancer is still the No. 2 cause of death in the U.S.  Why?