- Science is an oversimplification or a simple explanation for a seemingly complex observed phenomenon--this is a universal definition applicable to all branches of science.
- Science is not a simple accretion of facts or data and their manipulation through statistics.
- While physical sciences (Physics, Chemistry and other branches, and their mathematical realms) remain theoretically far ahead of what is practically possible (see attachment), medicine lags far behind in rock-solid theory and tries to make that up with experiments in animals and humans and of course, through genetics -- the cart-before-the-horse approach. More so, medical researchers are surprised that their approaches to science might be called faulty or proven faulted.
- "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted"-- Albert Einstein. There are instances where the immeasurable is more important than the measurable -- see attachment. Science, and particularly medical scientists, and most specifically migraine researchers have no clue about the immense depth and width and length of the immeasurable dimension.
- Straight quote from my book (see attachment): "Migraine remains a classic example of a clinical entity that has not yielded its secrets to statistical legerdemain. Perhaps in no other clinical entity has the immeasurable proven so much more important than the measurable...The key cranial physiological system involved in migraine remains unidentified...Natural laws become apparent only when science becomes abstract, bordering on art...Whatever is statistically significant is certainly publishable; equally certainly, it is not biologically or medically original".
- "Obviously science follows no (man-made) plan. It develops at random. Its progress depends on fortuitous conditions, such as the birth of men of genius, the form of their mind, the direction taken by their curiosity...Men of science do not where they are going. They are guided by chance, by subtle reasoning, by a sort of clairvoyance...We have an almost irresistible tendency to select the subjects of our investigations for their technical facility and clearness rather than for their importance"-- Alexis Carrel, "Man, The Unknown",1959--Nobel Laureate.
- This scientific misery refuses to let up, except in a few pockets of excellence in medical research, that are there for us all to admire.
- The accountant mentality of medical researchers of the 20th and 21st century is also there for all to see in medical journals published worldwide. The reversal of the swing of the pendulum is imminent with the demise of the p-value no longer a distant mirage -- see attachments.
Madelaine Lawrence
I believe no. Logic has its issues too. Years ago if person had a myocardial infarction, a heart attack, they were put to bed for usually 3 weeks. They could not get up out of bed for anything. We had to carefully watch the sneakers to the bathroom types. They had to be fed even. The logic was, the heart was damaged and needed rest to heal. A physiologic study of five subjects put on bed rest showed bed rest to be physiologically harmful. These patients were and still are up out of bed early. Medicine has made great strides through research. Much more is need.
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