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1.1) Basic Concepts made operational
Life is full of tasks to be fulfilled and entails the temptation to
take short cuts. This began in paradise, and led to being outcast for an
age long detour and bloodshed.
On June 29, 2006,
Sir Iain Chalmers highlighted “The Scandalous Failure of Scientists to
cumulate scientifically” even in terms of medical research, let
alone the humanities. In a lecture
organized by the Collegium Helveticum at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in Zürich, Chalmers exemplified his main point, that failure to review
existing evidence systematically before embarking on new research is not
only bad science, but that in the field of medicine, it has led to harm,
to perhaps ten thousand of lethal cases, just in the filed he used for
his study; what a waste of resources! He pointed
out the resistance of academic communities to even considering his
scientific proofs of what his solution, cumulative analysis can achieve. Among other things,
the time span for gaining certainty e.g. about the effect of new drugs, can be
speeded up, up to a decade. This means saving millions of people from unnecessary harm.
The academic community's resistance to his methods was exemplified when a so-called eminent scientist in the medical field suggested
Chalmers
should be tried at the International Court in The Hague and accept counselling.
Sir Iain Chalmers also outlined the utter failure of many so-called ethics
committees claiming to improve research. They would rather play politics
with their cases. On the other hand, through his work he has made sure that
there are no scientific, ethical
and even economic grounds for arguing against it.
Breakthrough scientific work often
does not get sufficient attention to address the main cause for which
it was set up - or should be. In fact as at
Sir Iain Chalmer's lectured, no medical person concerned appeared,
except a retired professor, despite the fact that Prof. Gerd Folkers, who
organized the event, invited many in the field the personally. Obviously Sir Iain
Chalmers touched the tip of a human thinking catastrophe, which is not
just largely ignored by academia, but perpetuated by referencing their
distortion of substantiality, despite the
obvious fact that it lies at the bottom of all human catastrophes! The
source of all evil is inadequate knowledge, said Nietzsche, who not only
knew what he was talking about, but also suffered to the point of death from it. Examples
of the undesirable state of the knowledge work in science, let alone in
politics, management and in the lives of people, are plentiful. They
range from the original sin, to Europe suffering the Plague unnecessarily
for a century after the discovery of its prevention, the so-called Titanic and Space
Shuttle Disasters, numerous wars and genocides, desperate acts of individuals,
making suicide socially acceptable in many ways, the collapse of ENRON, the Swissair Grounding
and so on and so forth.
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