One can’t consider statistical interpretations as science. It is data oriented probabilistic inference only. Science provides the foundational knowledge for your experimentation. It rationalises everything you do in the experiment from the beginning. Without that fundamental logics, you can’t blindly hypothesise and do something. So starting in medical research to evaluate whether partially researched unknown compound is performing better in masking, blocking, suppressing enzymes, pathways and hormones in the body (benefits outweighing risks in the moment of research) than the unresearched unknown compound is never scientific research.
First of all, the goal of scientific medical research is to probe into the cause mechanisms of diseases. It should aim at their reversal. Inventing any molecule or compound to block and mask disease is unethical. Such unscientific research is harmful to humanity. One can’t understand how such inhuman acts are even counted as ethically approved research in medicine?
FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
Science is the fundamental knowledge that guided research. Just as we do in our Physics and Chemistry labs. We learn the logics and logical calculations and then proceed to lab, do experiment by applying the logics and reach valid inference. That is called scientific experiment. Simply experimenting with several unknown compounds and interventions without clear purpose is illogical and unethical. Claiming such experimentation as scientific research and treatment has no foundation.
For example imagine that you are researching for knowing the details of the animal kangaroo. You have decided to collect the details of endless animals on earth without knowing much about how a kangaroo looks. You observe aimlessly and comment that you are advancing by collecting data about kangaroos. You publish this data even in so-called peer review journals but have yet to conclude something. This is poor medical research practice.
THE IGNORANCE
In how much period you will be capable of understanding what a kangaroo is?
Even if one publishes volumes of so-called research data, one remains in the same state of ignorance throughout life. This ignorance is there from the beginning of one’s research. This occurs because one lacks enough valid logical inputs. One also lacks knowledge based on the fundamental nature and behavior of the kangaroo. This flaw is clear in many fields including medical research.
Western Medicine is doing this kind of research and no matter how many new drugs are developed also, they are not fit to be addressed as cause of reversal of disease as the cause mechanisms of disease can be ultimately reversed by the body itself and not by any unknown external compound ever. And we see medicine is meant to instantaneously activate internal cause mechanisms facilitating reversal of disease. Researching in Science (knowledge of established truths) and performing rigorous deduction to establish truths of nature of man in health and disease and thereby invention of mechanisms of understanding and reversal of disease by the body originally deserves to be called as medical research
Today what is counted and considered as drug research in Western medicine is not fit to be called as scientific medical research, it is only statistical evaluation of temporary state of action of unknown compounds.
Conclusion:
1. Science is meant to know through medical research.
2. Data will only show something.
3. Research in science is meant to know the law of nature.
4. Outcome of research in science is meant to know and do and not merely show off.
(Dr Naresh Purohit is Principal Investigator for the Association of Studies for Medical Education, The views and opinion expressed in this article are those of the author)
