http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/04/28/covid-update-focus-on-vitamin-d/#comment-161090
Where would such a religion stand if mathematical modelling under regulatory definitions had to give way to empirical science?
The interpretation of data - along with the setting of parameters for measuring and collecting it - is a specifically human contribution to the determining of an accepted model, to then apply to life - and either accept as aligning true or seek to challenge and reveal either better ways of interpreting the data or new data that renders the model unfit or in need of revision and modification.
Clinging to invested models is where what had started out as science becomes institutionally locked in dogma as a result of unwillingness to release the sense of possession and control that the failing model provided. This is characterised by the use of science as a stick of consensus by which to beat down (reasoned communication) along with carrots of funding and career opportunity in model reinforcement compliance.
in the context:
J.B Patten:
Perhaps you can’t see the atoms themselves, but to determine their locations, yeah, pretty much.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3122623/
It’s easy to find answers to things like this on pubmed.
Gary Ogden responsed
JDPatten, I was interested in reading this, but he lost me near the end of the second paragraph with, “Scientists know the shape of proteins on the new coronavirus’s surface down to the position (sic) of individual atoms.” I don’t think so. Perhaps I missed it along the way (absent, maybe, or taking a nap), […]
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