Why the Old Are Anti-Science
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:42 pm
From the comments: http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2014/1 ... ent-202618
On another front in the anti-science movement look at the people who are against cannabinoid medicine. Lots of “free market – small government” people there. You have more cannabinoid receptors in your body than any other type and cannabinoids regulate the immune system. And every other system studied with respect to cannabinoids. But cannabis is not medicine. Legally.
I’m trying to figure out the commonality between the two groups (anti-climate change, anti-cannabinoid medicine). Adversity to change? Interest? Belief trumps knowledge? Because obviously their politics is not common.
I estimate that cannabinoid medicine if fully exploited would destroy the medical industry as we know it and be worth around $1 trillion a year in medical savings. A cure for at least some cancers and maybe all of them. So there is also interest at work. The drug companies are some of the biggest backers of Prohibition. With the alcohol companies right up there. And of course all the lost government jobs.
Maybe that is the key. Government jobs/funding.
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And then there is aging. A look at “cannabinoids cytokine” is informative. And just for information: Ebola kills by cytokine storm.
In time the discovery of the body’s cannabinoid system will rank up there with Einstein’s discovery of Relativity. You will have Raphael Mechoulam to thank for getting the ball rolling and for his support of many other researchers in the field.
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After age 25 or 30 when the body's endocannabinoid system declines in production humans are generally incapable of changing their world view. Which is why Max Planck said:
“Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Thus, Science advances one funeral at a time” Max Planck
Although he was unaware of the reason for that.
Fixed ideas are not as profitable as they used to be. There are constant revolutions going on.
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The discovery of the endocannabinoid system - initiated by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam - will be ranked on the order of Einstein's discovery of Relativity. When the old opposition dies out. We are getting closer to that state of affairs everyday.
On another front in the anti-science movement look at the people who are against cannabinoid medicine. Lots of “free market – small government” people there. You have more cannabinoid receptors in your body than any other type and cannabinoids regulate the immune system. And every other system studied with respect to cannabinoids. But cannabis is not medicine. Legally.
I’m trying to figure out the commonality between the two groups (anti-climate change, anti-cannabinoid medicine). Adversity to change? Interest? Belief trumps knowledge? Because obviously their politics is not common.
I estimate that cannabinoid medicine if fully exploited would destroy the medical industry as we know it and be worth around $1 trillion a year in medical savings. A cure for at least some cancers and maybe all of them. So there is also interest at work. The drug companies are some of the biggest backers of Prohibition. With the alcohol companies right up there. And of course all the lost government jobs.
Maybe that is the key. Government jobs/funding.
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And then there is aging. A look at “cannabinoids cytokine” is informative. And just for information: Ebola kills by cytokine storm.
In time the discovery of the body’s cannabinoid system will rank up there with Einstein’s discovery of Relativity. You will have Raphael Mechoulam to thank for getting the ball rolling and for his support of many other researchers in the field.
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After age 25 or 30 when the body's endocannabinoid system declines in production humans are generally incapable of changing their world view. Which is why Max Planck said:
“Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Thus, Science advances one funeral at a time” Max Planck
Although he was unaware of the reason for that.
Fixed ideas are not as profitable as they used to be. There are constant revolutions going on.
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The discovery of the endocannabinoid system - initiated by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam - will be ranked on the order of Einstein's discovery of Relativity. When the old opposition dies out. We are getting closer to that state of affairs everyday.