May 23, 2005
Last century, physics was the superstar of the sciences
John S. Rigden in Science & Spirit:
In 1918, following the end of the Great War, people were emotionally exhausted and desperately wanted the world to make sense. In Berlin, a physicist working quietly, using only the power of his mind, predicted a subtle behavior of nature. When his prediction—that starlight would be deflected as it grazed the edge of the sun—was proven correct in 1919, the world welcomed the news, and Einstein became a celebrity.
In the decades that followed, physicists were regarded as heroes. During World War II, they developed radar, which won the war, and the atomic bomb, which ended the war. Throughout much of the twentieth century, physicists commanded the lion’s share of media attention as they identified the basic building blocks of matter, invented the transistor and the laser, probed the eerie consequences of quantum mechanics, and uncovered evidence about how the universe began.
Over the last thirty years, however, physics has been nudged from the spotlight by the life sciences, which were transformed by the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA in 1953...
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Thank you Abbas Raza for posting this fine article by John Rigden on physics, the Mother science. All other sciences are branches of physics in one form or another.
The foundation of physics is the high intellectual discipline of those giants who set the standard of excellence in intelligence and courage and discovery of the secrets of the subject and revealed them to subsequent generations free, at no cost, with no royalties required to be paid to the "trusts" holding ownership or patent rights: From Galileo Galilei and Issac Newton to Clerk Maxwell and Max Planck; from Albert Einstein and Robert Millikan to Carl Anderson and Richard Feynman, and on and on and on, all of these remarkable individuals had exceptionally high standards of intellectual honesty and truth.
Unfortunately, their high example has not carried over to many of those in the life sciences, many of whom, continue to falsely represent the power of genetics to solve all the ills of the world, especially in the single most outstanding "unsolved" problem: cancer, where about one person dies every minute in the United States either from the disease or "treatment" or combination thereof. Horrible activities have been reported about some researchers in this subject, patently violating the scientific method evolved by those giants of physics above. One prominent book which describes the horror of all this is "The Cancer Industry" by Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D., Equinox Press, N.Y., 1996, first published as "The Cancer Syndrome" about 1980, documented with about 500 references, and strikingly not produced in academia. Another is the book "The Politics of Cancer Revisited" by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., East Ridge Press, N.Y., 1998, documented with about 1200 references. There were times in the past, and perhaps even today, when some scientists did not believe the laws of physics and chemistry apply to the human body and living organisms. Much of the work of "the greatest biochemist of the twentieth century", Otto Heinrich Warburg, M.D., Ph.D., was directly or indirectly devoted to dispelling this view, and proving uneqivocally that nothing but the laws of physics and chemistry are responsible for life processes; Otto's father was a distinguished physicist and held the chair of physics in Berlin, successor to Hermann von Helmholtz. Otto Warburg learned physics well from his Father, and was really a physicist after all. Is life really nothing more than a control system as the geneticists would have us believe? How could you have life without oxygen, without water, without sunlight, without vitamins and minerals, without enzymes, without energy, etc., etc., etc.? Multi billions of public dollars have been spent in a failed attempt to understand cancer since the War on Cancer in 1971 and what do we have to show for it? Even Otto Warburg's brilliant discoveries in this area have largely fallen on deaf ears, dating from 1923. The Centers for Disease Control does not even have his name in their database! This is what our life scences have degenerated to in the United States and many other places too. And now the Cancer Generals, as Dr. Epstein refers to them, responsible for much of the past failure, expect and will likely receive, even more billions of forced public tax dollars and private dollars too, to continue their shennanigans to continue to deceive a gullible and unwitting public of the truth. "On the Origin of Cancer Cells", Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph.D., Science Vol. 123, p. 309, 1956. Note: There is not a single not life threatening "approved" treatment for cancer in the United States. Every cancer treatment of the orthodox medical "profession" is life threatening. Therefore, when a patient dies while having cancer and treatment, one never knows whether they died of cancer or treatment or a combination thereof, expecially since no autopsy, let alone a truly objective one with high standards, following the true scientific method, is performed.
Winfield J. Abbe, Ph.D., Physics
Posted by: Winfield J. Abbe | May 23, 2005 9:25:41 AM
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