Jackie,
The End of "Normal Science in Medicine" is a welcome title. The article is already 8 years old and much has happened since then, especially in the science of "epigenetics". Quoting from Dr. Hyman:
"The study of nutrigenomics is leading medicine in a radical transformation akin to the change in our conception of the universe, time and space that occurred when the deficiencies of Newtonian physics were illuminated by quantum physics.
It is an era where genetic predisposition replaces Mendelian genetic determinism, where biochemical individuality replaces biochemical homogeneity, where the importance of the biological terrain or internal milieu exceeds that of the external invader. However, acceptance of the change, seeing what is right in front of us is difficult. As RD Laing states in
The Voice of Experience:
“Our most self validating premises are the most ingrained, our hardest programs are the most self validating, our way of looking is not easily disturbed by what it sees, let alone by what it cannot see.”
WHAT IS “NORMAL SCIENCE”?
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
—Max Planck
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Paraphrasing Dr. Hyman,
The study of epigenetics is leading medicine in a radical transformation akin to the change in our conception of the universe, time and space that occurred when the deficiencies of Newtonian physics were illuminated by quantum physics. It is an era where epigenetic cotrol replaces genetic determinism
The quantum revolution in medical science is well underway and you can hear the "kicking and screaming",*
Erling..
* 'Quantum' cell biologist Bruce Lipton in
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles (2011) [
www.amazon.com]
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 05/24/2012 06:35PM by Erling.