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Goldman, The Science Journalist
I love writing about science.
I would not be walking today
if I had not found surgeons good enough
to replace my hips twice. And I love
being Your Enchanted Gardener, the Dream Planter,
for this role allows me to point out the need
for new science-based research.
Date: 2/19/2010 2:28:51 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1228 times
LESLIE GOLDMAN,
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
from the PRESS ROOM
at the AAAS ANNUAL MEETING
Feb 19, 2010
12:08 PM
February 19, 2010
I love science.
I have loved it all my life.
In the eleventh grade at Fairfax High School
in Los Angeles, before they did an upgrade
and built a building over the old pond,
Richard Lapidus and I would climb over the fense
and catch toads.
One night, around 11 PM,
we hopped the fense started to collect
toads on the football field.
They were all over the place.
A police car came by and the officers saw us.
They wondered what we were doing.
They came closer.
I told them.
The Peace Officer pulled out his
flash light and helped us find toads.
I have always liked Peace Officers since that day.
Richard and I sold the toads down at Eric Sontag's
store for 5 cents each. They may have gone
into the bellies of some snakes, or some may have
been used as lab experiments. I hope we did not
hurt the ecological balance that night, or influence
the current trend of climate change.
You know, every little thing we do really can make
a difference in the balance.
Back to the eleventh grade.
I had a natural bent toward biology.
Richard and I dreamed of opening up a place
called Atlantis Unlimited. It was going to be
a building with two of a kind animals,
and of course lots of snakes.
Richard was into Herpitology,
the study of critters that crawl.
It was because of my natural leanings
that I got into an advanced biology class,
and I really excelled. The school counselor
put me in advanced chem next.
I was never good at math.
It had something to do with my emotional intelligence.
My dad was always yelling at me.
From an early age I took on attributes
of being afflicted with an inability to
do math under pressure.
Perhaps there wasn't anything wrong with me.
I may have been suited to another age of math
where they did Sacred Geometry.
I may have been more suited to the exoteric sciences
more than those with a 20th century bent.
It is wonderful to be among my fellow scientists
and the international press down at the
AAAS Annual Meeting.
I will be heading down there soon
after I stop at the O.B. People's Food Coop
for some locally grown organic food.
I have a problem with digestion.
I am grateful of late for all the herbs
that Ayurvedic healer Nuva Yeetah
proscribes for me over the phone
after he listened to the sound of my voice.
My M.D. Daniel Bressler, a teacher at UCSD,
finally pinpointed that I had a kind of bacteria
in my gut that has been causing long standing diarrhea.
Diarrhea goes with the territory of having
Anglylosin Spondylitis. IBS is common as a side effect.
Apples, I have to look out for them.
They can give me the runs, but through using
all Ayurvedic medicines that are used in the hospitals
of India, I have finally pinpointed some remedies that work.
I especially like Kurchi Bark. Suyok is another that is
dealing with the parasites.
Amen to that.
I have had this condition that was named Spondylitis
since I was a teen. I am 62 years old now.
It started to show up when I was 15, three years
after my mother died of cancer that started in her breasts.
It took many years before the doctors at UCLA finally
diagnosed my condition. Back then in the history of Western Medicine,
the idea that the mind and body were somehow connected
was called having an pyschosomatic disorder.
In the 80's, many of my friend M.D. and I got together
down at the Town and Country Convention Center
in conferences that birthed the Holistic Health movement.
Some of the leading M.D.s of the age, now elders
were my personal friends, including Paul Brenner, M.D.
who I believe may have started as an oncologist.
He was the first man who ever used the word acupuncture.
He discovered it during his visits to China.
Ah, the AAAS. This is a jewel of an organization.
I met a number of the presidents last night
after the opening ceremony. I was director
toward the next President Dr. Nina Federoff.
She is the author of a book I highly recommend
to anyone who wants to get in the debate between
GMO vs Organic food.
As Your Enchanted Gardener and a visionary of sorts
as well as a Science Writer very interested in GMO's,
I predict that this will become the issue of our times.
Genetic Engineering! What a gift to humanity!
Often I speak to Dr. Judith Larkin Reno over the phone.
She has been on zero life expectancy for more than
13 years. Her doctors cannot figure out scientificially
what she is still doing on the planet. She often
says that she has caused Big Pharma to develop
new drugs just to keep her alive. They once
did stem cell work on her so deep that it was down
to the bone.
The truth is, science has helped, but it is her will to live
that has kept her alive, and a thorough knowledge
of alternative healing arts, including what foods
serve her frail but mighty body.
Ah Humanity! What a great time to be alive
in San Diego, as the future now becomes the present.
Let us all opening it together during this AAAS Annual Meeting.
OTHER PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS
IN THIS SERIES
DR. PETER AGRE, (L) President of the AAAS
with ALAN L. LESHNER, CEO and Executive pubisher
SCIENCE.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1575969
"The scientific community
can strengthen the bridge between science and society
by ensuring vigorous enforcement of scientific behavioral norms
and standards, aggressively focusing on problems
of global importance,
and actively engaging with the public.
As scientists and policy-makers convene
in San Diego this week at the AAAS meeting,
we all should commit to pursuing these goals."
--DR, PETER AGRE, President of AAAS
and ALAN L LESHNER, CEO and Executive Publisher
SCIENCE, editorial in the current issue
online.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1575969
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