Can truth ever hurt? Must it hurt?
Yes it can, if you have taken a contrary theoretical-philosophic-scientific position that you are willing to defend with your life and with your own take on the subject, having fallen in love with your own hypothesis, without concern for its evolution.
This is my last question/discussion on the subject of migraine and will contain all my publications or their links, past or future. There are many veils of falsehood in migraine research and many levels of truth -- hence the hurting phenomenon.
While truth is a single-version dispassionate bliss-of-intuition, for those who have invested a lifetime in its pursuit, getting caught on the wrong foot is as good as being guillotined. Admitting error is like being guillotined by the hour.
How do you know that you are hurting?
IF
If you cannot sustain a fair dialogue
if you cannot balance without tripping
if you seek straws to exit the discussion
if silence or evasion gives you solace
if the research grant has gutted your
courage, and pithed your spinal cord
if real appears empirical, to you, and
if real appears empirical
if the grace of numbers clouds your vision
if you are betrothed to mesmerizing statistics
if you are lost in the woods of knowledge
if you are bewitched by the airy castles of print
if you know not the value of each tree
or shrub, in the wood of wisdom and the
breeze of intuition, and the Ocean, the Wind
pass by you, unnoticed, and communicate not
if you know not the value of foundations
if your heart warms to the applause of the herd
if you not the value of self-criticism, nor the
curbing of over-enthusiasm and restraint
you are set to hurt, no fear.
Now or in the future, no if.
This post will also contain some of my choice quotes from my publications, including my book.
The other arena of medicine that I am very active in, both as an author and as a reviewer for several journals, is that of OCCULT SARCOIDOSIS. I published what I believe is possibly the first case of truly occult sarcoidosis in 1996 -- i.e., sarcoidosis in absence of histopathological evidence or probable sarcoidosis, for the very critical minded (see file). According to my unpublished case records over 40 years, I can hazard a guess that 1/5th to 2/5th of the human population suffers from occult sarcoidosis, and, that no race is spared.
From sarcoidosis to OPTIMAL and PERMANENT HIV management is an incredibly short step that could take humankind a millennium or more to evolve. The spin-off such an achievement would be a major-threat-free below-the-belt uninhibited sexual behaviour of humans, unveiling other yet unknown major pathogens waiting for their turn.
40% of cases of sarcoidosis are diagnosed post-mortem (USA statistics).
I have evolved a diagnostic algorithm and phenotype for ante-mortem diagnosis of occult sarcoidosis with a still unknown cardiac involvement.
Once in an era, an article is printed that is REVOLUTIONARY, INSURGENT, INSIGHTFUL, INTUITIVE, BREAKS BONDS FROM THE PAST AND THE IRRATIONAL, CLEARS THE DEADWOOD IN ONE FELL SWOOP, rewrites the rules of the game, AND FOR ALL THESE REASONS IS irritating, unwelcome, and ignored by the herd.
Our generation may not be able to break the migraine code. This a must read article for the novice in migraine research, as the start is most important, and where you end-up depends upon where you begin.
I am active in Medical and General Ethics, a highly controversial subject, in which the division between right/wrong/acceptable/atrocious is very frequently blurred by rhetoric and debate. Ethics stands forlornly at the crossroads of justice, morality, philosophy, belief, faith, religion, ego, egoism, egotism, narcissism, a finite existence with infinite aspirations.
Ethics is important for research, also. The portals opened by a robust ethical viewpoint is matchless.
All humans, at all times, manipulate their thinking to reassure themselves that they are in the right quadrant. This is patently incorrect. .
I attach 2 articles, with one being a response from the editorial team at BMJ, one of the most prestigious medical journals. This is, indeed, a very RARE event.
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