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[edit] A short test for skeptics and scientists

Answers on the discussion page.

1. Who said, of what?

Furthermore, and this is what the reductionists usually overlooked, in order to understand a system one needs to know not only the properties of its components but also the nature of the interactions among these components. And it is precisely these interactions that are so important in living systems. Their study is the objective of the holists

2. Is the following quotation from a V RS? How good is the source, in WP terms?

At the turn of the twenty-first century, we take one last wistful look at vitalism, only to underscore our need ultimately to move beyond the genomic analysis of protein and RNA components of the cell (which will soon become a thing of the past) and to turn to an investigation of the “vitalistic” properties of molecular, cellular, and organismal function.

3. Who said?

the history of conventional medicine has largely been the history of the placebo effect.

4. Who said?

Avoid hubristic and arrogant attitudes toward alternative medical practices because one might be embarrassed by the subsequent demonstrations of their clinical efficacy.

5. In the following, what is X? Who said this?

The new research ... means that X for persistent lower back pain has been clinically researched more thoroughly than many orthodox medical treatments. Healthcare decision makers should consider X as an adjunct to usual care for patients with persistent low back pain or migraine: the best evidence shows that the associated health gain represents good value.

6. What are the impact factors of each of the following journals? Cell, Contemporary Sexuality, Nature, The Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

7. Who was described by who as "not the world’s first great scientist" but "the last of the magicians"?

8. Who believed the universe to be “the stable creation of God the Clockmaker”?

9. Who proposed the existence of a force inherent in all objects, by which they act on other objects instantaneously over a distance and with no need of any physical intervening medium? When was this theory discarded, and why?

10. What is the status of the following assertion: science, pseudoscience, opinion or fact? (give an alternative if you think one is better)

Any theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete.

11. Who said this, and what is the current status of this idea - Vitalism, pseudoscience, scientific orthodoxy, or other?

To whatever degree we might imagine our knowledge of the properties of the several ingredients of a living body to be extended and perfected, it is certain that no mere summing up of the separate actions of those elements will ever amount to the action of the living body itself

12. Here is a quote from a V RS. Why, in the author's opinion, were Reid's ideas not given credibility at the time?

Reid had clearly and, to the best of my knowledge, for the first time unambiguously demonstrated and recognized "active transport" by an in vitro preparation; that is, the flow of matter in the absence of an external (conjugate) driving force that was dependent upon a source of metabolic energy! ...However, what should have been a clarion call heralding a major conceptual breakthrough in epithelial biology turned out to be barely a whimper

13. What has been described as "the first coordinated series of placebo controlled blind trials in medicine". What did they test and falsify?

14. Who said?

Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories, rises as it were, above a swamp.

Finally,

15. Who said?

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual