Generalization is wrong

​​We cannot over generalize and pit everything or anything against something else.

Everything can coexist but subject to certain conditions which have come to be accepted universally for various valid reasons and they need not be brushed aside as Western or Eastern.

There are requirements and procedures in everything. One cannot walk into a school classroom and take classes even if one is better than all the existing teachers in the school. One cannot go and occupy a cabin in a bank and decide on loan disbursement though one may be better than any existing bank manager.

Similarly, there are many basic requirements for any product to be introduced, especially in medical field like proper documentation of the ingredients, empirical proof, double-binding, peer review (it may have its own short comings) and universal availability and accessibility to the product.

For that matter all BP and 99% of main Type 2 diabetic medicine ( Metformin) are plant based extract from flower.

Metformin is derived from the plant, Galega officinalis Linn. [Figure 1]. G. officinalis is commonly known as Goat's rue, French lilac, Italian fitch and Professor-weed.

BP from  Rauwolfia Serpentina and the politics and false claims and credits in Science.

https://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2015/05/nobel-prize-and-science-credits-and.html

Similar is the case with the controversies surrounding many patents. I shall give an example for this from one of my articles that I wrote for the Indian Express some 25 years back. At that time there used to be a supplement on every Tuesday called Science Express where I wrote half page article. Some extracts 

“For example as early as 601 AD in the Vaghbata complied by Indian physicians there is mention about the medicinal herb ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA’ and only in 1949 in the prestigious British  Heart Journal an Indian physician Rustom Jal Vakil published that powdered root of ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA  is very effective in lowering blood pressure. Then in 1952 Reserpine was isolated by Swiss chemist employed by CIBA under the direction of Emil Schlitter who produced pure crystals of active ingredient in ‘RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA and Boston heart specialist Robert Wallace Wilkins observed that Reserpine not only reduced blood pressure but also reduced anxiety. Now to whom will you give the Patents’? Leave alone all the controversies surrounding the product itself.

Unfortunately the things are further complicated, especially in the field of science, by the nexus and fights between industry and academia. While one of it has credibility the other has incredible influence. They generate with the help of media and publicity wings many questions of morality versus utility etc and the ultimate causality is truth.

Generalization and narrow analysis

I remember a wonderful quote
“Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!” – Steve Maraboli.

Let us not try to over generalize and oversimplify anything in the process of our analysis especially when we are going to end up being judgmental and are doing it in the process of trying to influence mass opinions through the media. The fact is that India as a country has immense variety in everything, which is a very interesting and big topic by itself and therefore cannot be confined to fit into our scope of vision which changes according to our own prejudices , especially more so in case of ,some media personalities who use different scopes to see and hear different things sometimes they use telescope, sometimes microscope, sometimes stethoscope, sometimes a binocular, sometimes an ordinary magnifying glass, sometimes dark glasses, sometimes just a mirror etc

And I would like you to read this link as it talks about the general traits not problems of identity in everyone’s life everywhere and the inadequacies of any perception, incompleteness of any experience and many more things presented in fair depth.

In fact I wrote this as a New Year message.

New Year with a New Realization of Reality

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2013/12/new-year-with-new-realization-of-reality_6.html

http://www.scribd.com/doc/189819608/New-Year-With-a-New-Realization-of-Reality1011