ResearchGate is an invaluable unique never-ending Global Medical Conference, wherein a constant meeting and clashing of scientific and philosophic minds, canonical beliefs, myths, assumptions, concepts, advances, proposals, and true meaning of data and serendipity in a truly stimulatory environment has become possible on innumerable fronts.

The provision of publishing of pre-prints with DOI is nothing but historic, giving whistleblowers the invaluable chance to correct the course of many-a-Titanic-like doomed scientific thrusts.

ResearchGate bridges the yawing gaps in thinking between the Institutions and the far-more independent individuals who do not have to justify research grants or seek patents or tenure or nebulous and shady/shadowy/unsavory associations with the overpowering device- and drug-manufacturing medical Industry, and encourages critical thinking with a stimulatory comment section.

Knowledge for sake of knowledge itself has evaporated from current medical scientific perspective. Now knowledge is a jostling competition for columns in journals, with well-established periodicals clearly favouring Institutional contributions and contributors. History suggest a near universal/global rule that innovation comes from the most unexpected direction, against stiff resistance from the leading authorities in the field (Horrobin, Lancet, 1996:348:1293-1295).

What additional avenues can ResearchGate provide to accelerate the pace of human scientific thinking and expose hope, hype and hokum in the garb of science?

The philosophy of science / scientific thinking / scientific notion precedes every data gathering-expedition. A hyper-focus on the philosophy of science and on fence-sitters of science who never respond to comments of their own data banks can accelerate forward momentum.

A separate section on SYNTHESES could be created to emphasize their invaluable contribution to human sciences.

ResearchGate has much to contribute to science, its potential is vast, and its future is a glowing beacon setting it apart from traditional periodicals and journals that are becoming more and more mercenary, that seek to keep egg-off-the faces of privileged authors and so-called leaders-in-science, remain steeped in tradition, and seek the future in the past.

Much of OPEN ACCESS published articles wield the ugly power of finance from sources with vested interests and deep pockets that will ultimately raise the question even with RCCTs sitting at the apex of the evidentiary pyramid: whose evidence is it, anyway?

Eventually, ResearchGate will invite its readers to give away in quasi-ceremony from their own research dens -- the Fortresses of Solitude -- the Whistle-Blower of the Year Award, even if it just a mention on paper/website. Progress is an amazing output of the rare creative mind willing to share and daring to bare. The rest is chaff.

The apocalypse of scientific drivel envelops (almost) all of us. Technology and statistics has kidnapped our ability to think critically and constructively and positively, to see the wood for the trees, to see the pattern where none existed previously, and to create the logical matrix out of nothingness. Everything in the vastness of all the galaxies has been created out of the Supreme Nothingness.

I leave you all with lines of sheer magic. Magic that has unfolded the Universe of Migraine and its manifold medical associations to me, the instrument only, and that I have not hesitated to share. Despite being accused of a messianic zeal, I will complete the part of the work assigned to me by Nature.

" Every research question has a different approach. True progress in science requires the ability to grapple with the immeasurable, the daring to view phenomenology differently, to give birth to and maintain a disquieting but penetrating dys-synchrony, to confront and not be overawed by history or consensus, to sustain searing self-criticism, and to carry curiosity and imagination to a defensible and generalizable conclusion." (Gupta, Functional Neurology, 2019)

Where you start invariably determines where you will end.

I have taken 8 decades to reach here.

Take this jump start to your advantage -- begin here.

Let ResearchGate bask in your glory reflected from the one and only GLORY.

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13 SEP 2023