Why Do We Do Basic

Biology Will Tell You A Lot Of Things, But There Are Many That It Can Not Explain And You Need To Look At Physics Instead.

Why Do We Do Basic Research? To Learn About Ourselves.

Early On, It's Good To Develop The Ability To Write. Learning To Write Is A Useful Exercise, Even If What You're Writing About Is Not That Relevant.

Scientists Tend To Be Skeptical, But The Weakness Of The Community Of Science Is That It Tends To Move Into Preformed Establishment Modes That Say This Is The Only Way Of Doing Science, The Only Valid View.

I Am Afraid That Those Comments Go Back To The Late 80's. At That Time I Was A Skeptic - The Argument Based On Koch's Postulates To Try To Distinguish Between Cause And Association. Today I Would Regard The Success Of The Many Antiviral Agents Which Lower The Virus Titers (to Be Expected) And Also Resolve The Failure Of The Immune System (only Expected If The Virus Is The Cause Of The Failure) As A Reasonable Proof Of The Causation Argument .