Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts |
In looking at the ways that information can be manipulated, John Bailar notes that, 'There are many ways to distort the scientific truth without actually lying.'49 Consequently, I would therefore be very cautious about using industry data as the principal basis for regulatory action. The structure of the REACH program means that independent data will be relegated to anecdotal status."
It is a huge dilemma. Another tack can be pursued as well. |
David De Angelis See book keywords and concepts |
Lawrence
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
?Max Planck
Those who are rigidly committed to one explanation may have their minds opened up by being encouraged to examine things from an alternate perspective. ?Michael J. A. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
The believe that they alone are the appointed deliverers of scientific truth, and that they are so unswervingly correct in their crystal ball predictions about infectious disease that those who do not wish to participate should be considered criminals and arrested.
This is, in effect, exactly what they are saying when they mandate these vaccination programs. They are stating that anyone who disagrees with the vaccination policy and refuses to participate should be arrested and imprisoned, and their children should be taken away by Child Protective Services so they can be "properly medicated. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Researchers are simply declaring whatever they want with no real regard to scientific truth or common sense. Much of medical science today has become a self-reinforcing exercise in pro-pharma dogma. Listening to drug-company funded researchers talk about nutritional science is a lot like listening to President Bush talk about peace: There is simply no connection with reality.
There is no health announcement too absurd for the mainstream media to print. |
Ron Garner See book keywords and concepts |
I mention this scientific truth to highlight that the loving intent and truth we hold in our beliefs, or who we are in our process of evolving, will determine the frequency our individual beings vibrate at. As we grow in love and live more of our truth, we raise our vibratory frequency.
The law of energy physics is that things of similar frequency vibrate together; like attracts like. In other words, we attract people of similar frequency to us, and similarly, we are attracted to them. We do this for the purpose of reflecting our state of growth to ourselves. |
Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts |
Today, this idea continues to prevail as a fundamental "scientific truth" in the modern medical system.
Pasteur could have just as easily concluded that bacteria are naturally attracted to the sites of increased cell death, just like they are attracted to decaying organic matter elsewhere in nature. Flies, ants, crows, vultures and, of course, bacteria are drawn towards death. Why would this be different in the body? Weak, damaged or dead cells in the body are just as prone to germ infection as an overripe piece of fruit. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Now it's a commonly recognized scientific truth, published in peer-reviewed journals and widely acknowledged by the scientific community. It just goes to show you how unpopular it is when you're a few years ahead of the public perception on these things.)
This law has been needed for quite some time. And who was against this law? Of course, it was the psychiatrists! |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II See book keywords and concepts |
The American Heart Association recommends a diet for heart disease that favors moderation, rather than scientific truth. The National Cholesterol Education Program does the same thing. These organizations pitch moderate diets with trivial changes as being healthy lifestyle "goals." If you are at high risk for heart disease, or if you already have the disease, they recommend that you adopt a diet containing 30% of total calories as fat (7% of total calories as saturated fat) and less than 200 mg/day of dietary cholesterol. |
David Wolfe See book keywords and concepts |
Because the catalyst is changed due to electrolysis, it is then not a true catalyst and indicates some deeper scientific truth underlies the reaction.
Viktor Schauberger's philosophy focuses on the ennoblement of water: life is about ennobling water in a dynamic interaction between the Heavens and the Earth. Essentially, Viktor Schauberger and many spiritual adepts throughout history have understood that water responds to our thoughts and intentions. Water is a living, conscious entity. Dr. Masaru Emoto has demonstrated this fact in his books The Messages of Water (volumes 1, 2 and 3). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Does this have you questioning some of scientific truth today, or what's your view on it?
Dr. Baughman: I pointed out earlier that it's not just psychiatry, but its pediatrics, neurologists, family practitioners, psychologists, school teachers across the country have become pawns and have not seeing the evil of their ways by becoming pushers for the drugging establishment. This is the standard of practice across the board. The entire profession has been bought out. On average, every physician in the country gets $13,000 per year from the drug companies.
Mike: In what form?
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
I’ve often talked about the tyranny of the FDA and its campaign to censor the scientific truth about the healing benefits of natural foods, including cherries and many other items. This event demonstrates perfectly well the sinister nature of the FDA, which clearly intends to restrict the spread of knowledge about cherries and thereby protect the profits of anti-inflammatory drugs that treat joint pain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts |
Medical journals: They pretend to be the gatekeepers of scientific truth, but in reality most are for-profit publications that predominantly print pro-drug articles. By sheer coincidence, most medical journals are also largely funded by drug money (advertising dollars from drug companies). |
Byron J. Richards See book keywords and concepts |
The Leptin Diet is based on fundamental scientific truth. The principles upon which it is based are unlikely to change. This is not a fad diet, a calorie-manipulation scheme, or a starvation routine masquerading as a diet. It does not involve deprivation of pleasure. While the emphasis of this book may seem directed at those who need to lose weight, the underlying principles of the Leptin Diet apply to most people. It is a lifestyle for eating properly, grounded in the science of leptin. It is something you can do happily and healthfully every day for the rest of your life. |
Bruce H. Lipton See book keywords and concepts |
But metaphor does not equate with scientific truth. Nijhout summarizes the truth: "When a gene product is needed, a signal from its environment, not an emergent property of the gene itself, activates expression of that gene." In other words, when it comes to genetic control, "It's the environment, stupid."
Protein: The Stuff of Life
It is easy to understand how genetic control became a metaphor as scientists with ever-greater excitement zeroed in on the mechanisms of DNA. |
Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts |
Today, it's not about discovering some new scientific truth, it's about distorting science to sell more products. To call it junk science is an understatement.
Big Pharma's trespasses into scientific fraud go way beyond mere junk science. The fraudulent trials, hiding of evidence, cherry-picking of studies, and intimidating critics all point to a policy of succeeding in the marketplace at all costs while invoking "science" as a convenient defense. |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek See book keywords and concepts |
The Conscious Universe: The scientific truth of Psychic Phenomena. San Francisco: HarperCollins.
Raymo, C. 1998. Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion. New York: Walker and Company.
Richardson, G. P. 1992. Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press.
Riley, G. J. 1997. One Jesus, Many Christs: How Jesus Inspired Not One True Christianity, but Many. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.
Salk, J. 1983. The Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason. |
F. Batmanghelidj See book keywords and concepts |
THE BIRTH OF A NEW scientific truth IN MEDICINE
History tells us that every so often, through basic discoveries of the applied techniques of nature, important leaps of progress have become possible. Humankind, because of these fortuitous happen-stances and flashes of insight, has unraveled many of the secrets employed in its creation.
One such happenstance seems to have revealed itself in 1979. I had become a political prisoner of Islamic revolutionaries and was being held in the Iranian prison of Evin. |
Peter Pringle See book keywords and concepts |
Once again, a quest for the scientific truth of GM foods was undermined by special interests. The debate became the most poignant in a long list of events that had eroded public confidence in the new crops—golden rice, the cornfields of Oaxaca, potatoes with snowdrop genes, the monarch butterfly, patents on basmati rice and yellow Mexican beans, StarLink corn, and the mysterious escape of canola genes on Percy Schmeiser's farm in Saskatchewan. The Zambian incident also refo-cused attention on the developing world as the new front line in the biotech wars. |
Ken Wilber See book keywords and concepts |
Scientific and Religious Truths
In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I am now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. See book keywords and concepts |
Often the majority opinion is wrong. scientific truth is not found by democratic methods or a show of hands. Frequently the lone iconoclast is found to be correct. Scientific history is replete with such examples.
Bias in Science
Scientists are human, just like the rest of us. Too often we envision them almost as religious figures, dedicated to a quest for truth and wisdom that is pure and logical. But a closer examination reveals that sometimes they have a weakness for short cuts to success—dishonesty, distortion of results, faked data, and other forms of deceit. |
Joseph Glenmullen, M.D. See book keywords and concepts |
Independent academics can perform a critical role in society, safeguarding the public interest and the pursuit of scientific truth. A few individuals with serious behind-the-scenes conflicts of interest should not be allowed to spoil this rich tradition.
We now have enough experience with drugs that boost neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and adrenaline to know that all of them will inevitably precipitate a backlash in which the brain seeks to counteract the effects of the drugs.3 This backlash is responsible for most of the serious, long-term side effects of psychiatric drugs. |
Valerie V. Hunt See book keywords and concepts |
The proof of scientific truth lies in replicating experiments and producing the same results. When we believed that "truth" was a single, unquestionable answer, this idea had merit. But the tenets of the quantum era show that the experimenter, as a part of every research he performs, influences the results by what he chooses to study, the collection of data, and how he analyzes it—but even more importantly, by his actual presence in an experimental situation. It seems that scientists cannot extricate themselves from the experiment. |
William Duffy See book keywords and concepts |
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light," said Max Planck. "But, rather, because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
The British called lemons limes at the time; British sailors were known the world around as Limeys. If Lind had taken his sailors off sugar or given them infusions of pine needle tea or bancha tea dr fed them cabbage, sprouts, scurvy grass, seaweed, or raw fish—all of which abound in ascorbic acid—the British might have had an entirely different monicker. |
Ken Wilber See book keywords and concepts |
He would say: "The familiar material world of everyday conception, though lacking somewhat in scientific truth, is good enough to live in; in fact, the scientific world of pointer readings would be an impossible sort of place to inhabit. It is a symbolic world and the only thing that could live comfortably in it would be a symbol. But I am not a symbol; I am compounded of that mental activity which is, from your point of view, a nest of illusion, so that to accord with my own nature I have to transform even the world explored by my senses. |
Thomas S. Kuhn See book keywords and concepts |
And Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."8
These facts and others like them are too commonly known to need further emphasis. But they do need re-evaluation. In the past they have most often been taken to indicate that scientists, being only human, cannot always admit their errors, even when confronted with strict proof. |
Ken Wilber See book keywords and concepts |
But all that has here been said about religion is naturally well known; it has been repeated only in order to emphasize that even the natural scientist must recognize this comprehensive significance of religion in human society, if he wants to try to think about the relation of religious and scientific truth. |
| In what follows, then, we shall first of all deal with the unassailability and value of scientific truth, and then with the much wider field of religion; finally—and this will be the hardest part to formulate—we shall speak of the relationship of the two truths. |
G. Edward Griffin See book keywords and concepts |
Not only does this history lead us to a clearer understanding of how the pharmaceutical industry has come to be influenced by factors other than simple product development and scientific truth, but it also gives us the answer to an otherwise most perplexing question. |
Ken Wilber See book keywords and concepts |
I suppose that is all I can say about my own conception of scientific truth."
"Quite so, but positivists will object that you are making obscure and meaningless noises, whereas they themselves are models of analytic clarity. But where must we seek for the truth, in obscurity or in clarity? Niels has quoted Schiller's 'Truth dwells in the deeps.' Are there such deeps and is there any truth? And may these deeps perhaps hold the meaning of life and death?"
A few hundred yards away, a large liner was gliding past, and its bright lights looked quite fabulous and unreal in the bright blue dusk. |