### science | medicine:

Western medicine
* Many western medicines come from chemical formulas derived from plants.
* achieves effects.
* focuses on controlling symptoms and treating diseases once they manifest.
* increase their effect when the concentration is increased.
* is based around treating rather illness than preventing disease
  - better suited to dealing with acute health problems
  - grounded in medical research
  - now dominant in the People's Republic of China
  - the treatment of first choice
* offers no cure for hemorrhoids.
* relies on prescription medicines for the cure.
* says colds are caused by a virus that enters the body through mucus membranes.
* tends to consider only the material aspect of humans
  - diagnose and treat as the effect of the disease state it has on the body
  - treat most diseases as acute
* uses hormone therapy to prevent bone loss
  - bone-loss
  - two approaches, drugs or surgery

Metrology
* Metrologies are science.
* forms the basis of all weights and measures work.
* is measurement science
* is the science of measurement and is the backbone of all science
  - scientific study of measurement

Modern psychology
* branches out into a variety of therapeutic approaches.
* can thus appear to have continuity with the psychology of the past.
* says that compatibility is the key to matrimonial success.

### science:

Modern science
* Most modern science owes it origins to magicians
  - sciences use calculus
* asserts that the nucleus is composed of protons and neutrons.
* believes it knows most major large animals in the world today.
* benefit from contributions.
* chronicle of serendipitous discovery.
* claims to produce value-free, universal knowledge.
* considers mind to be the product of brain activity
  - the oceans and oceanic wealth as natural resources
* debunks racial classifications.
* explains the function of acupuncture in the following ways.
* has no explanation for obvious phenomena such as planetary rotation.
* is also interested in origins
  - based on the experimental verification of knowledge
  - collaborative, and people learn from talking to each other
  - often a mystery to non-scientists
  - one or two thousand years old at the most
  - predicated on duplication of effects and predictability
  - still unable to manipulate whole groups of genes
* offers a number of theories.
* recognize types.
* rejects any view that human values arise from the supernatural.
* relies heavily on the same technology that is transforming the rest of the planet.
* reveals that the very basic unit of the body is cell.
* show chemical components
* supports the idea that another realm exists outside of our ability to sense it.
* teaches the close interchangeableness of the senses.
* uses the term causality to imply predictability.
* validates beliefs by observation and tests that are repeatable by anyone
  - the knowledge that millions of our cells are being renewed daily
* views the human body, mind, and persona as a dissipative system.

### science:

Natural science
* deal with matter.
* explains human behavior.
* find their logic in their empirically supported theories.
* is an enterprise committed to discovering physical truth
  - based on a philosophy and a method
  - considered the best means of understanding man due to the method of reason
  - false when it attempts to decide on the meaning of things
* is the process of doubt and resolution
  - study of our world
  - unable to answer questions of an ethical nature
  - used to manipulating objects in experiments
* knows nothing of the relation between behavior and experience.
* seeks to discover the nature of objects without reference to the subject.
* show underlie unity
* uses a form of logic that puts things into classes.