 | Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
GP, and health writer
Science reveals that the evidence of our emotions - indeed, the evidence of our senses - is often misleading
In the third volume of Capital, Karl Marx writes: 'If the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided, all science would be superfluous.' Science reveals that the evidence of our emotions - indeed, the evidence of our senses - is often misleading. For example, intuition suggests that, when one event follows another, then one event may have caused the other. Science, however, tells us that association does not prove causation. Michael Fitzpatrick is author of MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know (buy this book from Amazon (UK) or Amazon (USA)), and The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle (buy this book from Amazon (UK) or Amazon (USA)).
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