Spun off from the discussion in this thread about empiricism and the history of science/medicine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509271 https://news.ycom

Spun off from the discussion in this thread about empiricism and the history of science/medicine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8509271 Some basic background on what Thomas Kuhn would have called the "phlogiston paradigm": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory