Science is about exploration and persistent questioning. Science can progress only if we try and understand nature, while more and more scientists are realising the futility of reductionist science

Prof Dr BM Hegde

Progress is looking at the same thing from different angles. If we look at something from the same angle that our forefathers looked at, without questioning them, we would never progress. Change is progress and science is change. We have burnt our fingers in the past without change but do not seem to have learnt our lessons. Galen’s idea of the tumours as the cause of illnesses was followed, without questioning for nearly 2500 years, with disastrous consequences. Bloodletting, purging, and vomiting were the routine for any illness. Bloodletting had killed even President George Washington when applied for his typhoid fever. We ignored the free controlled studies of the poor, who could not pay the doctors, surviving with the help of their immune system. Even today, the poor do not have the ravages of the expensive modern medical quick fixes!

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