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Insight

In vitro or in vivo? The question before modern science

Dr. Venkatesh Palla

Abstract
Modern science, which has so far monopolised most knowledge and relied chiefly on in vitro
experiments and double-blind trials, has now an opportunity in the corona pandemic to verify
its stand towards holistic medicine. There is an impending necessity to examine the methods
of mental discipline, which the ancient sciences followed as they postulated their basic tenets.
This article puts forward the advances and failures of modern sciences as far as human health is
concerned.

be tested upon the hard ground of matter
for them to be accepted as valid. Science
as it came to us from the medieval times is
rich with discoveries that have radicalised
our lifestyles. A cutting-edge analysis
that bewildered intellectuals, supported
by statistical validity that could induce
massive lifestyle changes, is the trend that
modern science followed as it strengthened
its stance of monopoly over knowledge and
distanced itself from the ancient sciences,
calling them myths and madness. But today
we see lifestyles becoming mechanised and
automatic, destroying creativity and tethering
mental capacities to digital sensors. We have
to take care that these innovations which took
The mind is the means of enquiry and the birth to appease our material needs do not
receptacle of knowledge for every scientist blanch our inspirations and our minds do
— ancient or modern. A mind observes, not stop striving towards creative goals in
infers and builds hypotheses which need to leading us to intuitive and spiritual heights.

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