Science, especially biological, biomedical, plants and animal based and allied sciences have generated huge data and information since several decades or even centuries. Scores of academia (PhDs and graduate students) with their theses and publications on numerous areas have flooded the data bank. For example, in the U.S., the life sciences saw an increase from around 8,000 doctoral recipients in 2004 to more than 12,500 a decade later. This is the scenario throughout the globe.

The point of concern is that, these huge data, information, interpretation and conclusions therefrom are in many cases offer contradictory and/or confusing statements. They are, in many cases, confusing science, beliefs and human ethics.

Sometimes plagiarism is totally destroying the essence of a good work.....sometimes the observations are overgeneralise, sometimes a outcome if aresearch is claimed to be supported by others which is in practical sense a completely different one. All these not only creating wrong data but also distorting an established data or information.

Biological or biomedical sciences are often excused and seen in a different way because these are related to us. Moreover, unlike physics, chemistry, and other basic sciences biological sciences, in most cases,do not have any standard yardstick to comply with.

The inevitable question, therefore, is:

Are these sciences really fatigued now or creating negative impact or deviating from the pace, progress and spirit of development as expected?

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