For a world that seems to have become more 'scientific' and less spiritual, you would expect a fairly efficient system based on well founded science.....sadly not.
What we have is very blinkered thinking. It is as if science sets out to find what it is looking for. Data smudging or data ignoring to get the desired result. In medicine this happens a lot (Bad Pharma!) So a lot of money is ploughed into research to discover what exactly - what they hoped to find in the beginning - doesn't sound like science to me.
I have a friend that worked in the engineering industry, the same applied, if the results were not quite as you expected - configure them differently or change what you expected...
So why bother carrying out studies if you know what you what you are going to get at the end of it?
This is the 'evidence based' approach that is held up in all areas of science as the only way to go.
And this is fine if the actual evidence is looked at in its entirety and not cherry picked.
The deviants to the expectations might lead to further and more exciting discoveries - but of course research is paid for by someone with an agenda for the product or the medicine etc. They might also lead to reasons not to proceed, but that might prove too costly and perhaps that is why certain studies are then ignored......so how scientific is this?
Our ever rising fuel bills are something we should all be challenging....Google 'free energy' Tesla came up with this concept years ago - when you google it you find many people out there with machines and concepts to produce free energy....How transforming to the world this could be.
Energy costs impact on nearly every aspect of our lives and add an extra financial burden on so many levels. Not just financial but the destruction of the planet. Not satisfied with drilling oil, there is the devastation of the Tar Sands and soon fracking for shale gas here in the UK as in other parts of the world.
So what if the free energy devices were not dismissed by scientists as 'not possible' and explored for their potential...Who knows that if they are proved to work on a commercial scale - the impact of that on all our lives would be incredible. A whole new, cleaner industry but with the benefits of producing what some believe to be a health giving electricity 'field', totally sustainable, clean and cheap!!
Who do you think might just want to stop any exploration into this concept?
But we seem to be happy to keep buying more and more power driven devices commercially thrust upon us as 'must have' technology, yet we face the prospect of power cuts in the years to come.
The cost of fuel now, sees many struggling people having to have their own 'power cuts' as the expense is too great already...so why are we not exploring options of 'free energy'
My local supermarket acts like the 'village store' it has developed an ethos that it thinks will appeal to its local customer base much like the village store it replaced....except the original one had local veg and eggs and dairy etc. This new supermarket village store has a strange concept of the word 'local' So why are we paying for carrots and potatoes to come in from Israel and Italy etc, when here we are surrounded by farming counties.
If you added the true cost of freighting this stuff in from such a distance, it would cost a fortune. I mean the true environmental cost of airmiles and environmental damage. If it had to be taxed to cover that, would we still want unseasonal crops in our stores - i guess not, but we will end up paying the price in the long run!
How about going back to eating local food, seasonal food from farms and farmers you know and trust and hopefully organic farms that might compete better if the imported food they were up against was sold at its true price!
Then we come to medicine - well we all know just how greedy big pharma is. But if we did a true stock take there what on earth might we find?
Look at the cancer industry - a multi-billion industry and has been for years and years and years...so where are the results? More people dying of cancer than ever before, survival rates...well to quote Phillip Day, health journalist, 'if you survive beyond 5 years and die, you are a dead survivor!' Improvements verses cost - if it was any other industry it would have collapsed.
We see increasingly more expensive medicines hit the market that our NHS can ill afford, but once off license the generic version is so much cheaper...then of course you get the drug companies that want to tweak it slightly and reapply for a patent as was the case recently in India, and good for them, they refused it telling that company the difference was not significant enough...the fact is they tried as a way of just making more money!
We are about to be hit by a plethora of new vaccines - one of the best money makers going. Shingles, Chicken Pox, Rotavirus (see previous blog)
Watch the media play each of these illnesses up. As soon as someone has a way of making a buck from something, it becomes a deadly disease. Now there aren't many of us that haven't had chicken pox and every parent expects their child to get it, now we will soon be hearing how lethal chicken pox is....I guess they will go with the economics...how much work time is lost in parents taking time off to look after sick children, this was one of the arguments for the rotavirus and measles etc Governments can waste money at will but our sick children needing parental time, well that can't happen can it??? Children getting childhood illnesses makes for stronger healthier adults.
And if the argument for vaccinating for every known illness (or at least those that they have developed one for thus far - the others are still ok to get at this stage) is to prevent death and maiming etc as is the usual scare approach, then when will the governments of the world ban smoking - huge impact on our NHS resources and loss of work time due to associated illnesses with it. How about alcohol - big social impact, costs on local authorities, police and NHS services and the knock on effects on the family and community.
So when we look at our priorities and do a stock take, it all starts to look like madness!
Put up with rising fuel costs - not explore free energy concepts.
Put up with flawed data that is pedalled under the title of 'evidence based'
Plough endless money into drug companies yet the results don't equal expenditure
Costly drugs and vaccination programmes that could well be storing up bigger health problems.
Flying food in from all over the world that we can grow here.
Can we afford to keep living like this?
Time to take the blinkers of science and explore what else can be achieved.
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