User:Pierre-Alain Gouanvic
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[edit] Main interests
[edit] Orthodox science
I am interested in understanding how orthodox science works. In particular, I wish to understand:
- Self-censorship in science
- The fear of being ridiculed
- The way a specialist's brain works
- The costs in terms of suffering and early deaths of the lack of conscience of many scientists in the life sciences
[edit] Systems biology
I perceive the term systems biology as a possible solution to the problems existing today in public health systems and in the amazing inability of most physicians an researchers to think about the human body. It seems extremely difficult for a scientist or a physician to consider that many biochemical abnormalities converge to produce a symptom or syndrome. The belief in genetics is one of the causes. Many still believe that each disease has one or two or perhaps 5 genes, and that time will tell where the problem is exactly; in the meantime, we let autists with their low magnesium, high lead, low EPA, low Zn, high isoprostanes, etc; obeses with their low i.c. Mg, high cortisol, high TnF-alpha, low gamma-tocopherol; and the list goes on; each and every article of WP that addresses specific medical issues should be enhaced with those infos that are considered "irrelevant". Nowhere is this logical fallacy so clear than in the field of so-called "rare diseases", where very common problems are left aside because, supposedly, we "know" that a specific gene is the cause of all this. As if it mattered.
[edit] Evolution
[edit] Horrobin's hypothesis
David Horrobin rightly stressed that all Human peoples on Earth have in common that they all have aproximately 1 % of schizophrenics (this consistency is unique); this shows that schizophrenia was there when Humanity appeared. A closer look on what schizophrenia and related disorders really are help understand, indeed, much of the good and bad sides of humanity.
[edit] Irwin Stone's findings
The inability to produce ascorbate has countless consequences; the inability of most specialists to think about this clearly proves that this is an issue that should be addressed by thinkers. Unfortunately, philosophers, anthropologists, primatologists, linguists, neurologists, have other things to do.
[edit] Projects
[edit] Tilt (Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance)
Tilt (Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance) is a model to understand the "compelling anomaly" of chemical sensitivities. I will create this article.
[edit] Wikipedia inventory of acupuncture points
With the advent of magnetic resonance imagery in the field of oriental medicine, Humanity now has the opportunity to understand this very different way of seeing biology. The inclusion of acupunture in the field of scientific enquiry is likely to have profound consequences in the fields of medicine, philosophy, and even physics, to the extent that the mode of functioning of acupuncture involves interactions that are known in physics, but that haven't been shown yet to be relevant in biology. I suggested the idea of creating articles for each acupunture point starting with those which have received scientific validation. One of the administrator of the acupuncture and acupoint articles welcomes this suggestion. We are hoping to find CC images to show the locations of points. Nei guan, Zhi yin, and Shenmen have their article. Those pages should have their chinese Wikipedia mirrors.
[edit] Quotes
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Mark Twain
All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. Albert Einstein
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. Samuel Goldwyn
