Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer or on any disease. Physicians seem so entrenched in militaristic thinking that it is not surprising that they have a long history of attacking other viable strategies that seem to be less medical or less militaristic.
In order to treat a patient, the doctor must provide a diagnosis that determines the existence of a “Western medical disease” (what might be called a WMD), even if this diagnosis is sometimes based on faulty medical intelligence or just selective intelligence.
Doctors usually choose to “shock and awe” the body. An elaborate attack ensues utilizing sophisticated technological armamentarium, including the newest painkilling drugs, antibiotics, and chemotherapeutic agents. This militaristic medical solution takes precedence over other strategies that strive to re-establish health through a coalition of forces in order to augment the body’s own defenses. Although a minority of doctors voice dissident opinions and propose less invasive treatment strategies, these voices are muted by the powerful medical industrial complex.
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Mantis Shrimp Eyes Might Inspire New High-Def Devices
- By Brandon Keim
- October 26, 2009 |
- 1:31 pm |
- Categories: Animals, Tech
They possess the animal kingdom’s most complicated eyes, capable of distinguishing between 100,000 colors — 10 times as many as humans — and seeing circular polarized light, or CPL, which can’t be detected by any other creature.
That ability was described in a study published last March in Current Biology. In the Nature Photonics paper, researchers unveil the biological underpinning of this optical wizardry, which is performed by specialized cells arranged in tightly packed tubular bundles. The cells change the rotation of photons as they pass through, converting CPL’s tight spirals to the straightforward, up-and-down wavelength of linear polarized light.
Awesome, no?
Life is stranger than science fiction, yes?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8318000/8318182.stm
Epic humpback whale battle filmed
Editor, Earth News
The greatest battle of all...
It is the greatest animal battle on the planet, and it has finally been caught on camera.
A BBC natural history crew has filmed the "humpback whale heat run", where 15m long, 40 tonne male whales fight it out to mate with even larger females.
Tried using functions in GIMP which I hadn't done before to correct wide angle lens distortion on the light poles. Don't know how to fix top of lamps just by themselves.
