phil12 wrote:
we have sometimes condemned discoveries that our technical limitations could not grasp ??
For the quoted mediator, science has nothing to do, it was just a scam guided by financial interests.
Ooh La La ! You don't have to mix everything up effectively. SCIENCE, in itself is not owned by anyone and everyone and anyone can recommend it, even scientists of all stripes.
All the laboratories employ scientists, on orders therefore, who do what their hierarchy orders them and all those who do not agree are fired manu militari and therefore remain only subject to dictate ... financial interests! And ALL the labs (not just in medicine) are dependent on it. In fact, as soon as there are interests, whatever they are, the system works the same way. The Servier scandal is only one among all the others, as in the case of autism caused by various factors involving industries and which are denied by these same industrialists. Nothing new under the sun !
Science and finance are two areas to be distinguished.
Yes, but are intimately linked by money… which is breathed in by private or state finance. Money is the nerve of war as well as research.
In the case of asbestos (a juicy industry), often cited by Janic, "science" had alerted long before the political decision-makers took action.
No it is not science, but the victims who could no longer be
denied by the medical community, the number was increasing and it took decades, if only because of the slowness of the system itself.
LA science which warns against the deleterious effects of vaccines follows the same path: negation of the phenomenon, increase in the number of cases but also disputed, questioned by scientists not linked to manufacturers ... in question, progressive recognition, then indictment , lawsuits, etc… which requires decades as for asbestos and meanwhile thousands of victims pay for their suffering or their death, but money has no moral!
we have sometimes condemned discoveries that our technical limitations could not grasp ??
not always! There are also, and unfortunately, overlapping interests that prevent these discoveries from emerging from silence, from omerta. Professor D ... who had put forward the important role of a current product in the protection of cancers had been able to communicate his research in learned societies, but when he questioned vaccination against polio, it was the omerta who fell on him on the pretext that his work, and especially his field evidence, would prevent mass vaccination of the polio vaccine. And therefore no technical limitation in this case and other scientists were also victims as Wakefield for the ROR, victim of machinations to discredit his work and that of the ten of his collaborators, fortunately rehabilitated by the courts now.
See the topic on Lyme disease!
"We make science with facts, like making a house with stones: but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a pile of stones is a house" Henri Poincaré