They gave Mullis the prize for the PCR in order to encourage its widespread use and validate it for the planned purpose of using it as a diagnostic tool for planned BS like HIV or Covid “ Diagnosis” even when they knew it was not nor ever could be an accurate tool for diagnosis.
One thing that you might want to consider on this topic is: has science run its course? Physics, for instance, is granting Nobels for either irrelevancies (Penrose's admitted, but inconsequential, mathematical brilliance) or banalities (this year's crop who worked on 'entanglement' -- a worthy topic, to be sure, but a vestige of what makes quantum mechanics, say, 'magical', if you want to think about it that way).
You've seen yourself that at least some (most?) of the medical/biological Nobels are, say, suspect.
Chemistry might be on slightly stronger ground, because of its links to engineering -- but if you look at your life, do you really feel that a new 'product' is going to make things more visceral/worthy?
I note that your main picture shows you in a Yoga pose. Evidently, Yoga adds something to your life. Do you need a scientific procedure to 'prove' that to you?
Science is a certain sort of epistemology that's exceedingly good at getting at the truth of certain repeatable things (like electricity). But I venture to say that the important questions of humanity are far divorced from scientific statements.
All I want to know: does my cat love me as much as my girlfriend does?
All I want to know: does my cat love me as much as my girlfriend does? I love this! this is the nature of our lives.
I think my main purpose in writing in the beginning was to differentiate between what we're told by the 'authorities' that the 'science' says (about viruses to start with and then many other things) and what the words on the pages of journals actually say and what they can't say.
I know that I don't need or want new drugs nor info on nutrition but it's nice to be able to show why I don't need them using the 'scientific' understanding.
But I think you'e right, we don't at all need the intellectual understanding of reality to 'know' it the spiritual/actual way
my reply to Toby Rogers recent post about entanglement theory 'I think biology is slowly catching up with physics which is slowly catching up with what students of Zen have known for thousands of years, that nothing is a separate entity, there is no self. Nothing can exist without the others. Nothing can be created or destroyed, everything that makes 'me' has always existed and will always exist. 'Humans' are collectives of species, mostly bacteria https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/a-tiny-water-flea-has-31000-genes we do not have a separate existence without them Jo
I think that may be true, science has run its course.
I am much more informed about the universe and how I see 'reality', in a way that positively impacts my life and happiness by practicing yoga, than by reading science.
I had also just decided to start posting more about my readings from Zen.
I will be interested to see what you write about Zen Buddhism. I'm currently living in a non-Zen, but Buddhist, country, and the society is wonderful.
As you probably know, Buddhism flourished in India until the reactionaries, say, wrote the Upanishads, which co-opted the attractive parts of Buddhism into the context of the Vedas. The country in which I live was colonized by Vedic Indians, who left them their one magnificent structure, but is now almost entirely Buddhist.
Yoga: there are few things more beautiful than doing a handstand and feeling your body align perfectly around the bones of your arms. It's like sinking into the ocean, and forgetting who you are.
Thank you ShiYen, I didn't know these things. I know some of the teaching of yoga ring true with my reading and understanding of the Soto Zen tradition in books by Cheri Huber, my biggest influence. Yoga and buddhism seem to go together.
How beautifully you describe the yoga experience. I am not yet practicing hand stand, but enjoy shoulder and head stand. I always feel completely different after a yoga practice and relaxation, like being in a hot bath, yes aligned in body, mind and spirit; calm and nourished, stretched and filled.
OK but Ivermectin is a drug and the other discoveries were types of bioparticles? (is that the right word?) Notably the PCR test is not a bioparticle either.
They gave Mullis the prize for the PCR in order to encourage its widespread use and validate it for the planned purpose of using it as a diagnostic tool for planned BS like HIV or Covid “ Diagnosis” even when they knew it was not nor ever could be an accurate tool for diagnosis.
That is a very good point. Yes, thank you
Dear Jo,
One thing that you might want to consider on this topic is: has science run its course? Physics, for instance, is granting Nobels for either irrelevancies (Penrose's admitted, but inconsequential, mathematical brilliance) or banalities (this year's crop who worked on 'entanglement' -- a worthy topic, to be sure, but a vestige of what makes quantum mechanics, say, 'magical', if you want to think about it that way).
You've seen yourself that at least some (most?) of the medical/biological Nobels are, say, suspect.
Chemistry might be on slightly stronger ground, because of its links to engineering -- but if you look at your life, do you really feel that a new 'product' is going to make things more visceral/worthy?
I note that your main picture shows you in a Yoga pose. Evidently, Yoga adds something to your life. Do you need a scientific procedure to 'prove' that to you?
Science is a certain sort of epistemology that's exceedingly good at getting at the truth of certain repeatable things (like electricity). But I venture to say that the important questions of humanity are far divorced from scientific statements.
All I want to know: does my cat love me as much as my girlfriend does?
ShiYen
All I want to know: does my cat love me as much as my girlfriend does? I love this! this is the nature of our lives.
I think my main purpose in writing in the beginning was to differentiate between what we're told by the 'authorities' that the 'science' says (about viruses to start with and then many other things) and what the words on the pages of journals actually say and what they can't say.
I know that I don't need or want new drugs nor info on nutrition but it's nice to be able to show why I don't need them using the 'scientific' understanding.
But I think you'e right, we don't at all need the intellectual understanding of reality to 'know' it the spiritual/actual way
Jo
my reply to Toby Rogers recent post about entanglement theory 'I think biology is slowly catching up with physics which is slowly catching up with what students of Zen have known for thousands of years, that nothing is a separate entity, there is no self. Nothing can exist without the others. Nothing can be created or destroyed, everything that makes 'me' has always existed and will always exist. 'Humans' are collectives of species, mostly bacteria https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/a-tiny-water-flea-has-31000-genes we do not have a separate existence without them Jo
Hello ShiYen
I think that may be true, science has run its course.
I am much more informed about the universe and how I see 'reality', in a way that positively impacts my life and happiness by practicing yoga, than by reading science.
I had also just decided to start posting more about my readings from Zen.
Jo 🙏🏽
Dear Jo,
I will be interested to see what you write about Zen Buddhism. I'm currently living in a non-Zen, but Buddhist, country, and the society is wonderful.
As you probably know, Buddhism flourished in India until the reactionaries, say, wrote the Upanishads, which co-opted the attractive parts of Buddhism into the context of the Vedas. The country in which I live was colonized by Vedic Indians, who left them their one magnificent structure, but is now almost entirely Buddhist.
Yoga: there are few things more beautiful than doing a handstand and feeling your body align perfectly around the bones of your arms. It's like sinking into the ocean, and forgetting who you are.
ShiYen
Thank you ShiYen, I didn't know these things. I know some of the teaching of yoga ring true with my reading and understanding of the Soto Zen tradition in books by Cheri Huber, my biggest influence. Yoga and buddhism seem to go together.
How beautifully you describe the yoga experience. I am not yet practicing hand stand, but enjoy shoulder and head stand. I always feel completely different after a yoga practice and relaxation, like being in a hot bath, yes aligned in body, mind and spirit; calm and nourished, stretched and filled.
Jo
Mullins’ ( good ) work indirectly gave validity to germ theory through did it not? So of course they would champion him.
OK but Ivermectin is a drug and the other discoveries were types of bioparticles? (is that the right word?) Notably the PCR test is not a bioparticle either.
Hi
ivermectin was awarded the prize as a treatment of an infectious disease (although it's not spread person to person)
the PCR has been used to create the PCR pandemic of a non existent infectious disease!
JO