The world is in a dangerous place right now. The news is dominated by angry vengeful old men wreaking havoc. What once would have been denounced is “allowed”. The moral compass of the world has slipped and badly so. How low must this limbo dance go, what depths of complicity must we reach?

In various posts in this blog, I have suggested that “mainstream” science is prejudiced and biased. It has a socio-political belonging and adherence which exhibits cult-like behaviours including shunning and “ex-communication”. Those that transgress are excluded.

In certain circles this would not be a popular view which underscores, perhaps, its validity.

In the USA we have the anti-vaxxers, who distrust big pharma. The news today suggests that a Glaxo drug belantamab mafodotin has been approved for use in the UK ahead of the world.

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It has not made it in other places yet. It has been withdrawn. Usually, the UK is behind in approval. Yet this Glaxo product gets a go-ahead, early. If one was cynical, one might note this.

As a whole big-pharma has made some huge whoppers over the years resulting in harm and even death. It does not have a clean angelic record. As an educated non-expert, I am shocked given both the heterogeneity of Myeloma and the diverse heterogeneity of treatment protocols that any clinical trial can have sufficient clarity. It is safe to say, however, that the treatment of Myeloma is an evolving field. And in my opinion, firm conclusions are dangerous, premature even.

I’ll suggest that “science” is a tad blind to its own errancies and failings. That carpet can be lifted for a convenient use of the broom. There is always vested interest in science be that as simple a career progression and socio-political inclusion. To bang on about pure detached and non-partisan debate is disingenuous. Peer review is not as holy, sacred and unbiased as it is claimed. People can kid themselves. Some reviews are cursory at best, given how busy many are.

I can say this safely because it will not damage my career progression.

The medicine of the past has been pooh-poohed as snake oil and witchcraft. Yet ethnopharmacology has provided many productive drug leads. Some on the soap box ridicule what they may later need and use. Sometimes ancient wisdom does what is says on the tin, be wise.

Gobshites exist in all walks of life and they probably always will. Those soapboxes can be irresistible.

Yesterday I wrote on an idea of using telepathic thought forms to de-phase coherent superposition states in entangled quantum pairs. Quantum telepathy. It is my opinion that there is no way that a proposal to investigate such a thing would get funded by any august research body. Some “pseudoscientific” pet project charities, low in funds, might bung a few quid. Nobody would fund a postdoctoral worker with sufficient skills to generate high fidelity entangled states and then allow them to assess the impact of telepathic efforts to interfere. Any study would need to be done on a shoestring in a garage or in secret if at a uni. There may be covert government players.

Science although it claims blue skies is very, if not ultra, conservative. It is a peer-shoal-herd endeavour. There are trends and taboos. Try funding cold fusion or room temperature superconductivity in high pressure anvil cells these days…

The way funding works is that you HAVE TO BE in a recognised institution to apply for funds. I tried to sign on for various quantum related things. The web forms would not let me progress UNLESS I added some institutional affiliation. I was tempted to put Bedlam Hospital which would have been allowed by the “intelligent omniscient” form.

Science must then ONLY occur in the affiliated mainstream. It is no longer allowed elsewhere.

You must be stodgy and conform in order to get funded…you probably have to scratch some backs too.

There is no incentive for me to even develop the philosophy behind the entanglement-information notion. People forget that wavefunctions remain postulates which we use to describe the observable realities we are currently capable of. Wavefunctions are not reality, merely a useable description. The realities we are capable of measuring is an evolving thing, much like Myeloma treatment. Philosophically they are a temporally fixated notion, best guess, of what we now “know”. We could say that they are a snapshot, a polaroid of our current “truths”. It is easy and lazy to forget this basic scientific philosophy and speak with adamant certainty about an evolving “knowledge”. The Higgs boson was a theoretical dream, billions of dollars later a lump in a graph says that the dream was OK. Our capability to detect that boson evolved.

People can have a religious awe about science and become a tad fundamentalist in its dogmatic application.

Lordy, lordy, lordy…Hail Einstein, blessed be his name…