Messages posted by: SharbaaniranjanTS1067316

I think a Masters Degree is enough, if research methodology is taught. As it is referring a person a Doctor who is not a doctor is funny. I heard one agricultural scientist telling his physician: you are a human doctor, I am a plant doctor! If you do multiple researches serially how many doctorates will you earn! In fact, after a post graduate degree, one should be asked to do a graduation in research methodology, if one wants to pursue a career in research. After a successful research work, one should be made a fellow of the society of researchers, instead of awarding a PhD. That is a correct nomenclature. Doctor of philosophy is a misnomer in various fields of activity. - S R Kundu, Scientist, NISCAIR, CSIR, India

This is my impromptu reaction to Why Neo-Darwinism is a pseudoscience? Suppose three conditions A, B, C produce a result R, how can anyone conclusively say that A and B will never produce result R? If it does once in a billion times, the statement that A, B, C are necessary conditions is falsified! So conclusive proofs are like statements like "two parallel lines meet at infinity", "at the beginning of creation there was a big bang". When a female white spotted bamboo shark at the Belle Isle Aquarium gave birth to two babies, my contention becomes evident.

Actually, all science is based upon observations, importantly, finite number of observations. There can be no other way. So what I want to say is that what Jiang Zhang terms as pseudoscience, probably in the sense of hyposcience, I would tend to rather term it as HYPERSCIENCE. So, though CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCES are the only human day to day mechanisms to go by, I tend to believe that there is something beyond big bang, there is something BEYOND the amino acid route to life. - Sharbani Ranjan Kundu, sharbani_ranjan@yahoo.co.in

What Dev Henis writes I tend to disagree. Common human culture can not be enforced. Culture is like evolution. It happens over spans of time by selection. The process is slow. It is by nature assimilative. We tend to gloss over differences and drive roughshod. This is a mistake. Culture is popular knowledge assimilation. You try to speed up the process and the elastic snaps. Cultures wherever are to be respected and knowledge reverse engineered to appreciate the foundations of the cultures. Otherwise you go on reinventing the wheel again and again. Jetset human society will end up like the Hindu Goddess Kali standing on Shiva and putting her tongue out. Charanamrit in Hindu temples have a sound scientific basis. The capmphor is a decoagulant and the basil leaf a germicide. Let us understand cultures and reverse engineer the practices instead of doing big budget research and reaching the world to a calamitous stage in just decades. Thanks. - Sharbani Ranjan Kundu, sharbani_ranjan@yahoo.co.in