Wave/Particle Duality and Biomedical Research Designs (original) (raw)

Scientific literature that directly addresses the underlying framework or paradigm of biomedical research is sparse. We consider ourselves objective scientists in well-defined scientific disciplines and design our studies based on state-of-the-art evidence in our respective fields. However, there is a pervasive underlying assumption that remains unexamined, and in this author's view scientifically unjustified. It is the assumption that because medical conditions occur in the physical body, their causality must be traceable to some form of particulate matter. Although this unspoken assumption is axiomatic in current research, it lacks supporting data. The thesis of this paper is that our assumptions about the underlying nature of reality are outdated with respect to modern physics. Because these assumptions serve as the basis for our study designs, i.e., determine the methodology as well as the variables we include and ignore, inaccurate assumptions risk excluding important data and biasing conclusions. Evidence based medicine is only as good as the research designs on which the evidence is based. If data are lacking because a question, or part of the data related to the question, have been ignored, then the 'evidence' is incomplete. What is missing in mainstream biomedical research, particularly in cancer, is the important role played by endogenously generated bioelectric fields in molecular, cellular and systemic signal processing.

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