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K W| Health Business/Administration 10 hours ago
A paradigm shift (or revolutionary science) is, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science.
This is what is happening now. As Medical Science is being overwhelmed with chronic illnesses it scrambles to name, let alone treat and the majority of the profession try to relegate it all to "in their heads"-a comfortable cop out.
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The researchers could find no evidence of bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection, and concluded that Morgellons was instead a psychiatric disorder.
Compare this to Dr. Gajdusek who won the Nobel for his work on kuru, a Prion Disease...........
The disease confounded explanation because the mashed brains of the victims, injected into chimpanzees’ brains, produced no symptoms. All known disease-causing bacteria, viruses and parasites produced symptoms within days or weeks. But when the chimps developed kuru two years later, Dr. Gajdusek theorized that a slow-acting virus was at work, somehow not producing the expected immune reactions.
One of his assistants found “scrapie-affiliated particles” — fibrils resembling those in the brains of sheep with scrapie. But it was Stanley B. Prusiner who identified them as tangles of normal proteins that had misfolded and clumped, “teaching” other proteins to follow; he named them prions. They are now recognized as the cause of kuru, scrapie, human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease. Dr. Prusiner won his own Nobel in medicine for that work in 1997.
The idea that disease could be transmitted by a mere twisted protein — something that lacks DNA and RNA and therefore cannot be said to be alive, is not killed by boiling and is not recognized as foreign by the immune system — turned the scientific world on its ear. Such proteins are now suspected as the causes of dementias and possibly as triggers for cancer.
Oh...and by the way....."mad" King George had Porphyria and "hysteria" has not disappeared (or been demoted to "conversion" in DSM5)........but is actually the paradigm shift occurring in Psychology at present . It has an exploding amount of research and is under the rubric of Dissociative Disorders-Hysteria is better named as complex PTSD.
Joni Mitchell became an iconic figure because her songs always told it "like it is" . No
sugar coating or pretending. If she says she has Morgellans, I believe her.
Finally
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
K W| Health Business/Administration 10 hours ago
A paradigm shift (or revolutionary science) is, according to Thomas Kuhn, in his influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), a change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of science.
This is what is happening now. As Medical Science is being overwhelmed with chronic illnesses it scrambles to name, let alone treat and the majority of the profession try to relegate it all to "in their heads"-a comfortable cop out.
quote page 1
The researchers could find no evidence of bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection, and concluded that Morgellons was instead a psychiatric disorder.
Compare this to Dr. Gajdusek who won the Nobel for his work on kuru, a Prion Disease...........
The disease confounded explanation because the mashed brains of the victims, injected into chimpanzees’ brains, produced no symptoms. All known disease-causing bacteria, viruses and parasites produced symptoms within days or weeks. But when the chimps developed kuru two years later, Dr. Gajdusek theorized that a slow-acting virus was at work, somehow not producing the expected immune reactions.
One of his assistants found “scrapie-affiliated particles” — fibrils resembling those in the brains of sheep with scrapie. But it was Stanley B. Prusiner who identified them as tangles of normal proteins that had misfolded and clumped, “teaching” other proteins to follow; he named them prions. They are now recognized as the cause of kuru, scrapie, human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease. Dr. Prusiner won his own Nobel in medicine for that work in 1997.
The idea that disease could be transmitted by a mere twisted protein — something that lacks DNA and RNA and therefore cannot be said to be alive, is not killed by boiling and is not recognized as foreign by the immune system — turned the scientific world on its ear. Such proteins are now suspected as the causes of dementias and possibly as triggers for cancer.
Oh...and by the way....."mad" King George had Porphyria and "hysteria" has not disappeared (or been demoted to "conversion" in DSM5)........but is actually the paradigm shift occurring in Psychology at present . It has an exploding amount of research and is under the rubric of Dissociative Disorders-Hysteria is better named as complex PTSD.
Joni Mitchell became an iconic figure because her songs always told it "like it is" . No
sugar coating or pretending. If she says she has Morgellans, I believe her.
Finally
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
― Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
