James Zimring, MD, PhD

James Zimring, MD, PhD

James Zimring holds the Thomas W. Tillack chair in experimental pathology at the University of Virginia where he runs a basic research lab focusing on blood biology and teaches graduate level scientific epistemology. He is the author of What Science is and How it Really Works (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Partial Truths: How Fractions Distort Our Thinking (Columbia University Press, 2022).  

Articles by James Zimring, MD, PhD

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May 2025, Issue 1

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