This podcast explores further evidence of what I hope is a trend toward more comprehensive thinking in science. Having played both sides of the fence—eliminating all the variables in scientific endeavors and taking them all into account in clinical practice—I admit that it’s not an easy shift to make. But when we invent technologies or formulate drugs, chemicals or procedures, or tinker with the genetics of plants and animals that will affect large populations and ultimately the whole planet, we need to expand our egocentric mindsets to include a world where all is connected.
While previously we may have dismissed such an expanded view as a more philosophical matter, that’s no longer an option in a high-speed high-tech world where the potential exists to make more mistakes faster. It you don’t believe this, consider the problems antibiotic- and pesticide-resistance have created.
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