My thoughts on the nature of scientific knowledge, how we produce it, what parts we can trust, and what parts can change are encapsulated in two series of substack posts. For a list of them and links to them separately, please go to the Philosophy section under My Work in the header.

I have also developed a new diagram for the scientific method. It and a discussion about it are found in the Scientific Method section, also under My work in the header.

My publications on trusting science

The Alan Alda Center for the Communicating Science posts a series called The Link. My article, How the Black Swan Became a Red Herring is their Link publication for September, 2023. In June, 2024 , they posted my article, The Way We Present Discoveries Can Fuel Science Denial.

Michael Mathews, a philosopher/educator at the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia publishes a Newsletter called HPS&ST Newsletter which stands for History and Philosophy of Science and Science Teaching. It carries news, book reviews, conference announcements and summaries and much else. He has been doing this for 40 years and has gathered an extensive world-wide distribution. It is free and very worthwhile. Alerted to a particular set of my Substack posts, he invited me to contribute them, in total, as an Opinion Piece in his September, 2023 Newsletter.

I nave an essay in a 2025 book, The Divide between the Humanities and Science, Why it Matters and How it can be Repaired. My essay, Unraveling the Science/Philosophy Paradox: A Key Factor in Repairing the Divide, explores how the treatment of exceptions to laws differs between philosophers and scientists. In the first case, they become proof of falsity and in the second, merely limits on their applicability. If you are interested in this chapter, please contact me at enke@unm.edu. A brief synopsis of the chapter is in this Substack post.