My trust in doctors (in general), hospitals, scientists, government and media (both already close to "empty" prior to Covid) has been shattered. Thoroughly destroyed. Only a true reckoning, complete with trials, prison sentences, and clawbacks of fortunes "earned" through this fiasco could set things right. But that's not going to happen. How many went to prison for nearly collapsing the world economy in 2008?
The corporate takeover of the western world is underway, it seems to me. Government does the bidding of the multinationals. God damn each and every government official who's betrayed us for a bag of silver.
Maybe when you get more of this all sorted out, Rudolph, you'll pull together a 'pop science' book yourself? My opinion is that your writing style and content are easily as good as Ridley's or Lane's, and definitely more humorous than either of them.
The downside to the physician placebo effect is that a pronouncement of doom from one of them has pretty much the same strongly negative influence on a patient as does a curse from a witch doctor in a culture that believes in the power of witch doctors. Western world doctors (like so many other Karens of the world) usually don't know when to shut up or be helpfully vague, in other words.
When my dad was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, I was struck by the fact that every oncologist and nurse he saw during his years of treatment assiduously avoided talking about how dire the situation was. Reason being, I figured, is too keep hope alive. We cannot live without hope. There are always outliers who live far beyond what's expected. My dad, a cheerful chap by nature, turned out to be one of them.
There most certainly is a mind/body connection. Pharma companies exist to refute that proposition and to look to them for the cure to what ails us.
Your musings on "succeed our way to failure" rings in harmony with a pet-hypothesis of mine (can't really call it a theory for various reasons):
All of us want - based on us being animals- maximise leisure, minimise hardships, and be pleasantly stimulated, so any human endeavour aims for one, two or all of those three.
To avoid this, work meaning actually doing a job which curtails your ability to do anything else simultaneously; tangible effort is necessary; and a certain but not dangerous or injury-causing discomfort must be present.
Else we become as hamsters with an endless supply of food, mating opportunities and playtime.
To instill (or install to sound like a software-seller) those virtues didn't require anything special pre-1950s: it was all there anyway. Now, not so much. Not in the West, which is why we're being "eaten".
Now, it would require something like voluntary national service in exchange for certain societal privileges (not necessarily military as fantasised by Heinlein in his 'Starship Troopers') and since no-one would vote for having to struggle to achieve something they already have for free without any responsibility or duty (franchise & "electability")... well, here we are.
A personal note: what I always find funny is the interaction between people in physics/chemistry/biology with engineers, and then with social scientists. The physicist or whatever can explain how and why a process works a certain way, the engineer can figure out how to harness it, and social scientist can prognosticate how it will impact society.
Yet, none of them are comfortable pondering and answering "Should it exist?"
I feel that bit is necessary, not as a brake on research but as a "Memento Mori" since whatever they've concocted will then be in the hands of people like Tony Blair or Al Gore.
Honestly, I started out a little intimidated-- this one's long! and he's talking about linear differential equations!-- but I agree with Larry T., as it turns out-- I'd buy your 'pop science' book because I end up following along in the end. And even enjoying myself quite a bit! Anyway, you know what the hubris of experts/trust of non-experts scenario reminds me of? Every single story about a priest, guru, or other faith leader who turned out to be a schmuck-- not just pitifully human, but a uniquely evil person who used his elevated position to harm others. Just as the conclusion some jaded, disappointed people have taken from these stories is incorrect (that it follows that God is a sham), the fault here is not with science but with our (very human) tendency to forget that we are only human and we are not set apart from every other generation in history by any supreme infallibility. Honestly, I have almost been "broken" in the opposite way of the people you mention-- I have that (typically anti-intellectual American) urge to reject science altogether, mistrust all doctors, and thump my Bible several times for good measure.
"When I learned about quantum entanglement, I was in grad school and had been dating my wife for about three years, and we were doing that long-distance thing. I remember the professor explaining it, and I was like, yeah, that totally makes sense. It just clicked. That's our queer love..."
EXCELLENT!!! Before the whole *Jenny McCarthy "vaccines caused my son's autism" hullabaloo*, I never thought twice about them. I had them, my kids had them. It was just what most people, unthinkingly, did. But, when the media went after McCarthy with such a vengeance, it made me start questioning why the vaccinated (i.e. "protected") cared if others weren't vaccinated. So, I dove deep into the research/studies of vaccines, and resurfaced all these years later as, not an "anti-vaxxer" (because 1-the 'true believers' are basically a lost cause, and 2-if after the last 3 years you don't think you should better inform yourself of the risks vs benefits, then you're also probably a lost cause), but a "pro-choicer" (because where there is risk, there MUST be a choice) and a "pro-informed consenter" (because in order to make a TRULY informed decision, we must have more than just the "safe & effective" trope). A lot of what informed my changed views was (is) the more recent science of terrain theory, epigenetics and German New Medicine. All VERY compelling schools of thought; and together basically say that our immune systems are designed to protect us from A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G... *as long as* we keep them healthy through diet, exercise, sleep, low stress, avoiding toxins and pollutants, etc.
The other main result of my research was the discovery of just how monumentally CORRUPT the medical system is, starting (basically) with John D. Rockefeller. It's an extremely fascinating, eye-opening, and very frightening history, and I encourage everyone to look into it. You won't think the same about vaccines, or any other pharmaceuticals, the same way again.
The main takeaway is, nature is both highly intelligent and miraculous, as is biology, as is the immune system. And it is only the hubris and greed of humans that have caused us to not only forget this, but also, and to our detriment, believe we need a pill (or shot) for every ill.
I guess the missaproproation of mathematics and the concurrent unjustified certainty started with David Ricardo and economics. It has now certainly spread to medicine and resultingly both disciplines have brought enormous damage to mankind but are in no way trying to address, rectify or recover from it yet.
And that although doctors are also usually totally incompetent with regard to maths, just always dead certain.
As to the mind healing the body, I have a couple of examples. When I was a little girl, I had a huge wart on my knee. I also had a great uncle who told me he would rub it off. Every day for about two weeks, he’d rub the wart with the tips of his fingers. I have a picture of him in my mind rubbing the wart and a picture in my mind of the wart being much skinnier. The wart went away. As a child, I truly believed that my Uncle Bob could rub away the wart. As an adult, I wonder if my uncle had special healing powers or was it my own mind? I do think it’s the power of the mind, but my uncle had to know this or he believed that he could make the wart go away. I wish I could ask him.
My guess is it was a bit of both. In addition to the tremendous power of our minds, there is also great power in intention. So, your belief in your uncle's power + his intention to heal you = your healing. The ancient cultures have known and practiced this for centuries, and quantum physics has helped the Western world accept what it once dismissed as 'woo woo' or 'fake science' or 'snake oil.'
Excellent essay.
My trust in doctors (in general), hospitals, scientists, government and media (both already close to "empty" prior to Covid) has been shattered. Thoroughly destroyed. Only a true reckoning, complete with trials, prison sentences, and clawbacks of fortunes "earned" through this fiasco could set things right. But that's not going to happen. How many went to prison for nearly collapsing the world economy in 2008?
The corporate takeover of the western world is underway, it seems to me. Government does the bidding of the multinationals. God damn each and every government official who's betrayed us for a bag of silver.
Spot on!
Maybe when you get more of this all sorted out, Rudolph, you'll pull together a 'pop science' book yourself? My opinion is that your writing style and content are easily as good as Ridley's or Lane's, and definitely more humorous than either of them.
The downside to the physician placebo effect is that a pronouncement of doom from one of them has pretty much the same strongly negative influence on a patient as does a curse from a witch doctor in a culture that believes in the power of witch doctors. Western world doctors (like so many other Karens of the world) usually don't know when to shut up or be helpfully vague, in other words.
Good point about doctors pronouncing doom.
When my dad was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, I was struck by the fact that every oncologist and nurse he saw during his years of treatment assiduously avoided talking about how dire the situation was. Reason being, I figured, is too keep hope alive. We cannot live without hope. There are always outliers who live far beyond what's expected. My dad, a cheerful chap by nature, turned out to be one of them.
There most certainly is a mind/body connection. Pharma companies exist to refute that proposition and to look to them for the cure to what ails us.
Good thinking!
Your musings on "succeed our way to failure" rings in harmony with a pet-hypothesis of mine (can't really call it a theory for various reasons):
All of us want - based on us being animals- maximise leisure, minimise hardships, and be pleasantly stimulated, so any human endeavour aims for one, two or all of those three.
To avoid this, work meaning actually doing a job which curtails your ability to do anything else simultaneously; tangible effort is necessary; and a certain but not dangerous or injury-causing discomfort must be present.
Else we become as hamsters with an endless supply of food, mating opportunities and playtime.
To instill (or install to sound like a software-seller) those virtues didn't require anything special pre-1950s: it was all there anyway. Now, not so much. Not in the West, which is why we're being "eaten".
Now, it would require something like voluntary national service in exchange for certain societal privileges (not necessarily military as fantasised by Heinlein in his 'Starship Troopers') and since no-one would vote for having to struggle to achieve something they already have for free without any responsibility or duty (franchise & "electability")... well, here we are.
A personal note: what I always find funny is the interaction between people in physics/chemistry/biology with engineers, and then with social scientists. The physicist or whatever can explain how and why a process works a certain way, the engineer can figure out how to harness it, and social scientist can prognosticate how it will impact society.
Yet, none of them are comfortable pondering and answering "Should it exist?"
I feel that bit is necessary, not as a brake on research but as a "Memento Mori" since whatever they've concocted will then be in the hands of people like Tony Blair or Al Gore.
Honestly, I started out a little intimidated-- this one's long! and he's talking about linear differential equations!-- but I agree with Larry T., as it turns out-- I'd buy your 'pop science' book because I end up following along in the end. And even enjoying myself quite a bit! Anyway, you know what the hubris of experts/trust of non-experts scenario reminds me of? Every single story about a priest, guru, or other faith leader who turned out to be a schmuck-- not just pitifully human, but a uniquely evil person who used his elevated position to harm others. Just as the conclusion some jaded, disappointed people have taken from these stories is incorrect (that it follows that God is a sham), the fault here is not with science but with our (very human) tendency to forget that we are only human and we are not set apart from every other generation in history by any supreme infallibility. Honestly, I have almost been "broken" in the opposite way of the people you mention-- I have that (typically anti-intellectual American) urge to reject science altogether, mistrust all doctors, and thump my Bible several times for good measure.
Speaking of all this, RR, it seems an appropriate time to ask whether have you seen this Ted Talk from a fellow physicist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NGz3iclZq4
"When I learned about quantum entanglement, I was in grad school and had been dating my wife for about three years, and we were doing that long-distance thing. I remember the professor explaining it, and I was like, yeah, that totally makes sense. It just clicked. That's our queer love..."
OMFG! As if queer-izing biology wasn't enough, now they're going after the universe?! Btw, I LOVED the comment section! Gives me hope.
EXCELLENT!!! Before the whole *Jenny McCarthy "vaccines caused my son's autism" hullabaloo*, I never thought twice about them. I had them, my kids had them. It was just what most people, unthinkingly, did. But, when the media went after McCarthy with such a vengeance, it made me start questioning why the vaccinated (i.e. "protected") cared if others weren't vaccinated. So, I dove deep into the research/studies of vaccines, and resurfaced all these years later as, not an "anti-vaxxer" (because 1-the 'true believers' are basically a lost cause, and 2-if after the last 3 years you don't think you should better inform yourself of the risks vs benefits, then you're also probably a lost cause), but a "pro-choicer" (because where there is risk, there MUST be a choice) and a "pro-informed consenter" (because in order to make a TRULY informed decision, we must have more than just the "safe & effective" trope). A lot of what informed my changed views was (is) the more recent science of terrain theory, epigenetics and German New Medicine. All VERY compelling schools of thought; and together basically say that our immune systems are designed to protect us from A.N.Y.T.H.I.N.G... *as long as* we keep them healthy through diet, exercise, sleep, low stress, avoiding toxins and pollutants, etc.
The other main result of my research was the discovery of just how monumentally CORRUPT the medical system is, starting (basically) with John D. Rockefeller. It's an extremely fascinating, eye-opening, and very frightening history, and I encourage everyone to look into it. You won't think the same about vaccines, or any other pharmaceuticals, the same way again.
The main takeaway is, nature is both highly intelligent and miraculous, as is biology, as is the immune system. And it is only the hubris and greed of humans that have caused us to not only forget this, but also, and to our detriment, believe we need a pill (or shot) for every ill.
I guess the missaproproation of mathematics and the concurrent unjustified certainty started with David Ricardo and economics. It has now certainly spread to medicine and resultingly both disciplines have brought enormous damage to mankind but are in no way trying to address, rectify or recover from it yet.
And that although doctors are also usually totally incompetent with regard to maths, just always dead certain.
https://sebastianrushworth.com/2021/06/23/how-well-do-doctors-understand-probability/
Have you run into Gerald Pollock's books? Superb, I think you would like them. The Fourth Phase of Water, and Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life.
How can Nick Lane ignore Pollock's work?
As to the mind healing the body, I have a couple of examples. When I was a little girl, I had a huge wart on my knee. I also had a great uncle who told me he would rub it off. Every day for about two weeks, he’d rub the wart with the tips of his fingers. I have a picture of him in my mind rubbing the wart and a picture in my mind of the wart being much skinnier. The wart went away. As a child, I truly believed that my Uncle Bob could rub away the wart. As an adult, I wonder if my uncle had special healing powers or was it my own mind? I do think it’s the power of the mind, but my uncle had to know this or he believed that he could make the wart go away. I wish I could ask him.
My guess is it was a bit of both. In addition to the tremendous power of our minds, there is also great power in intention. So, your belief in your uncle's power + his intention to heal you = your healing. The ancient cultures have known and practiced this for centuries, and quantum physics has helped the Western world accept what it once dismissed as 'woo woo' or 'fake science' or 'snake oil.'
Great stuff, as usual. Thank you and please keep up your good works.
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