On what PD researchers SHOULD be looking into?

An evidence……… or several.
PD researchers SHOULD be looking into to scientific data , to theirs, their labs’, to the data of the lab next door, same next floor or next building and t to living humanity
( and for a a start e-patients in forum are great witnesses!)

But your question sounds to me too strictly restricted, a vision of scientifc data as a very stiffy matter when one may suggest another one asking ..”on what and "how"and more, “on what and how PD searchers and non searchers”.

PD researchers SHOULD be looking too into to philosophy in order to look at two different data, resullts, hypotheses, theories, cultures not as opposed ones but as extraordinarly complementary,

Integrate philosophy to science so that it gives a sense
See Francisco Varela’s works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whrpX...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boWnC...eature=related



Foe here is one of the biggest problem :
scientific knowledge is currently far enough extended to make huge improvements in less than one year in PD as well a probably many other illnesses.
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Seriously, how could it be otherly when billions of dollars are spent every year for PD research and when whathever may be said upon searchers, most of them are doing their job the best it may be done underthe conditions they are given,

But is this enough? No.

If you’d look at Earth from space and think about science, woud you think first about top ranking, peer review and publication in brain or nature or would you hope science to be the possibilility for a better life full of peace for all the inhabitants of the blue planet?

The problems do not come from each one's mind and work but it lays in the consciousness of all of us.
When a civilization, ours, not te be particularly proud of, is able to make money, too much at places and at others let people die from hunger or thirst or illnesses they can't afford money for treatment of
Do you think we may understand how to build something with data.
Human beings must not be seen merely as the means of production and prosperity. The end towards which all our common efforts are focused must surely be quality of human life, and this influenced ethical foundations as well as material considerations

Here are few lines written in 1951 by the most recognized scientist in history, as well as one of the most important,.


"Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men.
The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

The area of scientific knowledge has been enormously extended, and theoretical knowledge has become vastly more profound in every department of science.
But the assimilative power of the human intellect is and remains strictly limited.
Hence it was inevitable that the activity of the individual investigator should be confined to a smaller and smaller section of human knowledge.
Worse still, this specialization makes it increasingly difficult to keep even our general understanding of science as a whole, without which the true spirit of research is inevitably handicapped, in step with scientific progress.
Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic . It is just as important to make knowledge live and to keep it alive as to solve specific problems

The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit in general requires still another kind of freedom, which may be characterised as inward freedom.
It is this freedom of spirit which consists in the independence of thought from the restrictions of authoritarian and social prejudices as well as from unphilosophical routinizing and habit in general.
This inward freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy objective for the individual.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a "matter-of-fact" habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. ...
The frightful dilemma of the political world situation has much to do with this sin of omission on the part of our civilization.
Without "ethical culture," there is no salvation for humanity. . Albert E.


Stop compilation of data, this is the trap, start cross fertilization of minds and share of intelligence.

But I have been "killed" for that.

Anne