--On 6 September 2007 16:59:08 -0400 Simon Jester
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'll agree that no one can be 100% *wholly* objective, but there is a
huge difference (in the degree of objectivity) between:
1. a 'scientist' working for Devlin-McGregor desperately trying to
'prove' that their new drug cures liver disease when it in fact does the
exact opposite, and
2. a back-yard mechanic messing around with electromagnetism, hoping to
stumble on some newfangled form of energy...
Oh yes.
And there's so much that could be said about inductive scientific rationale
and theories to explain life and experience. But to keep it short,
technology and it's advancement is different kind of knowledge from
inductive science and it's interpretation for launching products,
particularly medical products and food processing.
I think I'm looking at things differently concerning knowledge and truth
because of my background and concerns. I don't think one can explain
anything about the body based upon from material biological sciences
truthfully. One can identify agents and factors, symptoms. Allopathic
medicine can help, and surgery, like lancing an infected wound. Research
often tells why traditional foods and medicines, housing, silver etc work
for good health, but I don't really see any novel remedies. They appear to
exist but are usually short term relief from a condition. Also better
alternatives exist. Did you ever see an advert for wet flannels for
childrens' fevers? Well this primary nursing is the best way of reducing
fever.
Breakthroughs in offsetting brain damage following blunt head injuries are
cooling the brain.
My mother lost a finger two months ago because she was administered
anti-biotics instead of having the finger lanced (there is a sheath in the
hand, which doesn't exist in the foot and it presents a barrier to pus).
When a new infection emerged a week later, again the GP prescribed the
strongest antibiotics. I had been furious already. She rang the surgeon who
instructed the local nurse to lance it. It promptly got better. Her thumb
was saved.
You see her immune system had been compromised by antibiotics and by
environmental poisons. General Practitioners won't use a scalpel. Yet I and
other mountaineers carried one with us, plus a little iodine powder. You
can't find it for sale in the UK in local shops.
An example by analogy: We can push start a car to get it running, but it
tells us nothing about sparks combustion, heat, energy or gases or
solidity. Likewise computer analogies for the brain are only analogies, and
so misleading if taken as truth.
I don't mind technology, but it's driven by seeking solutions to problems
that don't exist. I see this in the food processing industry and in
building technology for the masses. We never really settle into a good
life; it creates problems when the problems are falsified.
I trained as a scientist, a linguist and a musician. Later I took an MSc
in Natural Resource Management. Fascinating, but it all ends up with
conservation of traditional practices as a whole culture as the solutions
to serious problems. I wouldn't call it science, simply investigation.
Ecophysiological studies and predictive models are sophisticated, but you
end up concluding that the traditional societies protected overgrazing or
from soil loss, maximised production and diversity within a locality yet
protected fragile environments. You see this nowhere more clearly than in
fragile mountain environments and desert fringes. And the major problem?
Centralised governments, at a distance from the people, disempowered local
chiefs/councils, World Bank, Green Revolution, and forces of cultural
erosion, like mass tourism. Most important is the mocking of their taboos
and rituals, which generally associated with local deities in a system of
give and take.
'Science' is a waste of time, to my mind. We haven't got what our grand
childern will have: And we are not better off than our Ancestors: Its the
myth of material progress.
Greed and materialistic world-views are the problem.
Oh dear, another too long post. Sorry. Forgive me.
John.
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