tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post117319968000493012..comments2023-12-10T10:06:41.979+00:00Comments on mutations of mortality: Paradigms and mavericksTerry Hamblinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06346629921055055879noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-33019569197851789392011-08-23T23:31:58.877+01:002011-08-23T23:31:58.877+01:00Logic, logic...always always...if you really do kn...Logic, logic...always always...if you really do know what you are talking about then you should...Manu Manickvelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08328788988855910309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-1174201514358617252007-03-18T08:05:00.000+00:002007-03-18T08:05:00.000+00:00Thanks for that view on paradigms, very relevant i...Thanks for that view on paradigms, very relevant in this period when expertise is massively denigrated in the provision of public services. Nevertheless, I do suspect that some are on the climate change/CO2 bandwagon because its an opportunity to push along a reduced dependence on oil, much of which comes from countries not trusted by the effluent west. It also reminded me that I have long thought that gravity acts instantaneously in our universe's visible 3 dimensions, but lack enough intellect or opportunity to be able to take it any further.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19490962.post-1173217596875424882007-03-06T21:46:00.000+00:002007-03-06T21:46:00.000+00:00I generally agree with your thoughts here. I cert...I generally agree with your thoughts here. I certainly am familiar with Thomas Kuhn, having read his most famous book, and having inculcated the basic ideas. <BR/><BR/>I disagree, though, that cold fusion was rejected because it violated the existing paradigm. It actually was permissible under the standard model. It was rejected ultimately because (1) the observable results did not support the idea of fusion (i.e. there were few or no neutrons produced. One wag quipped that if cold fusion was occuring, the researchers would have been dead from the neutrons generated), and (2) the results the scientists got were not reproduceable, a basic tenant of the scientific method. <BR/><BR/>It is likely that evolution is done in fits and starts, but I don't think that idea is rejected by mainstream science. <BR/><BR/>It is very true, though, that the challenge to orthodoxy does come at a price, both in shunning by your colleagues, and in the drying up of funding money. <BR/><BR/>But look at the changes in hematology in your career. Stem cells, the production of lymphocytes, the description of function of cells as you describe, even the notion that CLL is a disease of defective apoptosis versus the heavy water experiments that rather show the disease is an imbalance between production and destruction of these cells. These all qualify as paradigm shifts of various magnitudes.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for an interesting post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com