Angelina Jolie had her ovaries removed recently, to counter a possible
50 per cent chance of getting cancer in that part of her body. A few
years ago she had had her breasts removed for the same reason. Sooner
than later she may have more of her organs removed, and possibly
replaced by artificial ones!
Not surprising if you believe these doctors, who could be called
cancerologists. There is a 50 per cent chance of any human being
contracting any disease. Does that warrant getting our organs removed to
remain safe from cancer? If it is that easy, a lot more people will be
coughing up money to get their organs removed. I remember my
student-days when we used to advise parents to have their children’s
tonsils, even appendix, removed lest they cause problems. Now we think
that was foolish. Science has advanced by leaps and bounds.
With the latest science many conclusions could be drawn that seem to be true today.
The future is not there. It is yet to be born. The past is dead. The
human body is not a machine put together by joining organs. It is a
bundle of energy and a colony of 129 trillion human cells, each of which
can have an independent existence in isolation. We also are home to ten
times that number of germ cells at a ratio of 1:10. The human body
works as one whole and not in bits and pieces.
Healing has to be Whole Person Healing (WPH). This is now scientifically
accepted by the IOM in the U.S., thanks to Professor Rustum Roy’s
efforts. Organs cannot be treated in isolation. In a dynamic system,
prediction is impossible unless we know the total initial state of the
organism. Writing in the British Medical Journal, Professor W.J. Firth,
the physicist, shows how foolish it is for doctors to predict the
unpredictable future of their patients. (BMJ 1991; 303: 1565)
Pray, how could anyone advise a patient to have her organs removed for
fear of getting cancer there with 50:50 chances? That said, I must
hasten to add that this is very sensible medical business. Cancer is a
$1.72-trillion industry and growing by leaps and bounds.
The drugs are expensive and are not being tested properly. We have been
able to conquer cancer. Money seems to be the only driving force in this
business.
Scientists and rationalists condemn our poor astrologers for seeking to
predict human future. I agree with them there. But the same people do
not condemn this kind of quackery? Why are there such double standards?
In fact, the latter is more dangerous as it is done in the name of
“Science”.
What is science? I was sure Dolly would die a premature death due to old
age diseases as she was created from her mother’s cell.
That happened. Eric Drexler, a young PhD from MIT, started a company,
called, if I remember right, Furutistic Inc. He claimed to produce
custom-built human beings without mother and father (self-replicating
nanobots). He collected billions of dollars from venture capitalists.
His own teacher, the Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley, had to warn the
world this is an impossibility. The company closed down, declaring
Chapter 11! This is how one makes money through science.
All that is fine with our thinkers, but they are allergic to
astrologers. Weather predictions do not come true correctly. Edward
Lorenz then had a new hypothesis of the “Butterfly Effect”. In the human
body which is non-linear and holistic things happen due to butterfly
effect every minute. No one, not even the best scientist, can predict
the human future using the present science.
Poor Angelina Jolie, she has been taken for a ride. At this rate what
will be left of her body? I wonder how this business thrives in today’s
world where the media should keep a watch. On the contrary, the media
are helping them by advertising their work. Look at the news of
Angelina’s ovaries. They make headline news all over the world. How her
removed ovaries are making so much sense to the lay reader?
(Professor Hegde is a Padma Bhushan Awardee 2010, a cardiologist and
former Vice-Chancellor of Manipal University. drbmhegde@gmail.com )
Source -The Hindu
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