The concept of the unifying hypothesis is discussed, then is illustrated by taking a simple case history of acute pneumonia which could be diagnosed quite easily by reasonable attention to the patient’s "overall picture" rather than to irrelevant detail. A somewhat rough analogy is presented in the approach to medical education. A specific instance of a poor educational approach is the inordinate amount of time which students must spend drilling upon classical Darwinian evolutionary concepts, which are not only beyond proof but actually cause fragmentation within the expanding mass of medical scientific knowledge.