Now we need to apply this same historical and investigative analysis to the origins of medical research where we will discover how big pharma was born and came to rule medical science to the detriment of health care; charlatans such as Fauci had their beginnings, at least, as far back as Louis Pasteur, who was the Fauci of his day, a second-rate chemist who stole most of the discoveries he was credited with from Antoine Bechamp, a true genius of his day; even Pasteur, acknowledged on his death bed, that his "germ theory" was wrong and that bacteria and "viruses" only became pathogenic when human systems were immune compromised or weakened and our bodies were then vulnerable to opportunistic "invaders"; Bechamp understood this based on his real scientific experimentation as did Florence Nightingale whose experiences during the Crimean war led her to similar discoveries about the need for clean and healthy environments, including the environment of the human body; Pasteur's real legacy was to ensure that the fraudulent belief in "vaccines" was to be the unquestioned "cure" for all disease; the real motivation, not surprisingly, was that MONEY was to be made and controlled by a medical oligarchy(mafia) and that human health and well being took a back seat to greed and corruption to the extent never imagined....except in today's world!
Great work. Connect the dots... entropic (subject to immutable laws of diminishing returns guided by an inevitable heat death).... sounds like the precursor of Global Warming. History connected and brought into the current era. Must read and reread. Thanks.
Brilliant historical background and a vital part of what has been missing in education for far too long; without knowing about and understanding our past we have been led into the darkness of lies and deception in which humanity finds itself today; Cynthia and Matthew's work are not only amazingly insightful and enlightening but provide a renewed hope for the redemption of a "fallen world" as long as such truth seekers as these two authors continue to show us the way.
You win the internet today for pointing out the influence of entropy.
Beneath the sophistry and obfuscation lies the reason for the persistence of Malthusian thinking and Darwinian cant; what we incentivize, we get more of.
The parable of the Kaibab Plateau obtains.
Increase the food supply in any habitat, and procreation accelerates until starvation restores the population to that which can survive.
This doesn't make eugenic Malthusianism right or proper (remembering that those words are assertions of valuation,) it means that the underlying mechanisms must be acknowledged and understood. Without that acknowledgement, no alternative can be discovered and implemented.
I am convinced that Georgescu-Roegin's analysis holds one of the keys to understanding how to manage entropy in a way that does not descend into the savagery of eugenics.
I'm so tired of feeling like a Cassandra, until you two great investigators but more than that you are fantastic you have that very bardic touch that makes history a vivid almost cinematic, unforgetable
My late husband had that quality, I remember that in an asado full of History professors they were
almost paralized telling them the incredible trip of the Spanish Juan Ladrillero, specially the Southern Fiords of Chile, where winds of 230Km. per hour, that he himself lived exploring the Continental Ices.
"Today’s world is faced with two possible future systems."
I'm always a bit skeptical when I see an issue framed as a choice between one of only two possibilities. This is pure Hegelian dialectics, which got us into this mess in the first place, and which has been, and continues to be used as a means of dividing people and setting them against one another.
You can see this clearly in the stark political division between 'left' and 'right' in present day USA - terms which, as Hegelian markers, fail to embrace the multiple facets within those categories, as well as the fundamental similarities that subsume them both.
I'm not going to write a treatise on this (others have done a better job than I ever could) but simply point out that the way we frame a debate and define our terms sets the boundaries within which discourse can occur. This represents a form of (often self-imposed) control which can only be overcome by a dedicated effort to think outside the cube.
Now we need to apply this same historical and investigative analysis to the origins of medical research where we will discover how big pharma was born and came to rule medical science to the detriment of health care; charlatans such as Fauci had their beginnings, at least, as far back as Louis Pasteur, who was the Fauci of his day, a second-rate chemist who stole most of the discoveries he was credited with from Antoine Bechamp, a true genius of his day; even Pasteur, acknowledged on his death bed, that his "germ theory" was wrong and that bacteria and "viruses" only became pathogenic when human systems were immune compromised or weakened and our bodies were then vulnerable to opportunistic "invaders"; Bechamp understood this based on his real scientific experimentation as did Florence Nightingale whose experiences during the Crimean war led her to similar discoveries about the need for clean and healthy environments, including the environment of the human body; Pasteur's real legacy was to ensure that the fraudulent belief in "vaccines" was to be the unquestioned "cure" for all disease; the real motivation, not surprisingly, was that MONEY was to be made and controlled by a medical oligarchy(mafia) and that human health and well being took a back seat to greed and corruption to the extent never imagined....except in today's world!
Great work. Connect the dots... entropic (subject to immutable laws of diminishing returns guided by an inevitable heat death).... sounds like the precursor of Global Warming. History connected and brought into the current era. Must read and reread. Thanks.
Very well written. The Sun never sets on Malthusian thought.
Brilliant historical background and a vital part of what has been missing in education for far too long; without knowing about and understanding our past we have been led into the darkness of lies and deception in which humanity finds itself today; Cynthia and Matthew's work are not only amazingly insightful and enlightening but provide a renewed hope for the redemption of a "fallen world" as long as such truth seekers as these two authors continue to show us the way.
Great article - thank you!
Excellent work as always
You win the internet today for pointing out the influence of entropy.
Beneath the sophistry and obfuscation lies the reason for the persistence of Malthusian thinking and Darwinian cant; what we incentivize, we get more of.
The parable of the Kaibab Plateau obtains.
Increase the food supply in any habitat, and procreation accelerates until starvation restores the population to that which can survive.
This doesn't make eugenic Malthusianism right or proper (remembering that those words are assertions of valuation,) it means that the underlying mechanisms must be acknowledged and understood. Without that acknowledgement, no alternative can be discovered and implemented.
I am convinced that Georgescu-Roegin's analysis holds one of the keys to understanding how to manage entropy in a way that does not descend into the savagery of eugenics.
Interesting read about the logically closed minds by men of the social science.
No consideration there is an unknown to upset their achieved harmony of view and equilibrium.
Lauding the ego remains with us as fact still.
I'm so tired of feeling like a Cassandra, until you two great investigators but more than that you are fantastic you have that very bardic touch that makes history a vivid almost cinematic, unforgetable
My late husband had that quality, I remember that in an asado full of History professors they were
almost paralized telling them the incredible trip of the Spanish Juan Ladrillero, specially the Southern Fiords of Chile, where winds of 230Km. per hour, that he himself lived exploring the Continental Ices.
https://exploringyourmind.com/juan-fernandez-ladrillero-spanish-explorer/
Thanks for the ability to collapse comments.
"Today’s world is faced with two possible future systems."
I'm always a bit skeptical when I see an issue framed as a choice between one of only two possibilities. This is pure Hegelian dialectics, which got us into this mess in the first place, and which has been, and continues to be used as a means of dividing people and setting them against one another.
You can see this clearly in the stark political division between 'left' and 'right' in present day USA - terms which, as Hegelian markers, fail to embrace the multiple facets within those categories, as well as the fundamental similarities that subsume them both.
I'm not going to write a treatise on this (others have done a better job than I ever could) but simply point out that the way we frame a debate and define our terms sets the boundaries within which discourse can occur. This represents a form of (often self-imposed) control which can only be overcome by a dedicated effort to think outside the cube.
Foundational material for potential non-cubists:
https://vdocuments.net/alfred-korzybski-science-and-sanity-56789d3882f91.html?page=1
For the mathematically inclined:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU_puzzle
And an inspirational video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5oHL3zBDg
"So, what is MU" he asked? "Managed Uncertainty" she replied cryptically.