Revolutionary
Science
The Commonwealth of World Chinatowns is a platform for talented individuals to gather for cross fertilization of ideas. Art and science are both emphasized breaking free of the conventional silos inhibiting true creativity.
Why science?
A new way forward to scientific discoveries
There are many unanswered questions in science. That is, the nature of scientific quest is to always keep asking questions.
We are faced today with a peculiar situation where some lines of research cannot be done not because they are too dangerous but because they may threatened establishment views. Science in a sense is being censored.
Why has there been a dearth of truly revolutionary discoveries in science over the past century? Why are many lines of research being willfully prevented by withholding of research grants?
If solutions could be found to do scientific research that could change the world for the better and end poverty, wouldn't this be marvelous? Why has poverty been so persistent? How did China lift so many of her citizens in such a short period of time out of poverty?
What do we have to do differently?
How do we create the ecology for a global network of individuals to discover new technologies and deepen our understanding of nature?
Once a breakthrough is achieved more will follow. Dominoes will fall leading to a better world for all. Human civilization could rise to a new stage of evolution and become an outer space exploring race.
Research & Applied Science
Science & Consciousness
The study of the science of consciousness is a serious endeavor. Broadly speaking there are two sides to the debate. One is that consciousness sprung from the simple single cell organism to the complex and a simple brain eventually evolves into the complex self aware human brain. The other side of the debate says that consciousness exists before biology . That the universe itself is consciousness manifest. And therefore humans are not the only conscious being in the universe. This is the idea of the living universe. Many ancient cultures appear to record in their oral history, rock art paintings and carvings of such ideas. The photograph above comes from the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi. It depicts a typical ET. See the project description webpage for Prof Danny HIlman Natawidjaja's discoveries from the Gunung Padang excavations.
Are ETs and UFOs real? Recent government disclosures in the USA seems to suggest that there is some credence to the reports of such phenomena. Are there such reports in Southeast Asia too? The science of the future must look into these important topics seriously and not relegate them to the realm of ridicule and conspiracy theories.
In the Eastern philosophies, we know of Qi and Prana. In fact the founder of China's rocketry, Qian Xuesen took the study of Qigong seriously. A quote attributed to him from the foreword of a Qigong conference, " If we combine all the various aspects of Qigong, traditional Chinese Medicine and human paranormal qigong abilities, once this is all combined with modern science and technology, it will be possible to develop a new branch of science, allowing the current science to be raised to a new level. If this is done well, it will of necessity lead to a scientific revolution." This conference was held in 1986 in China.
It is time for us to take this seriously and the science projects of the CWC aims to do so.
Fourth Phase Water Research
Exclusion Zone Water
Extracted from Pollack Lab. For a more detailed explanation please visit the website:
Fourth Phase Water Research
EZ Water: Water has three phases – gas, liquid, and solid; but findings from our laboratory imply the presence of a surprisingly extensive fourth phase that occurs at interfaces. The formal name for this fourth phase is exclusion-zone water, aka EZ water. This finding may have profound implication for chemistry, physics, and biology.
Potential applications
Water Based Technologies
i. Filterless filter
ii. Desalination
iii. Energy from Water and Light
Water and Health: We are studying the central role of water in health. We are two-thirds water -- by volume. In terms of the percentage of molecules, that two-thirds figure computes to a lot of water molecules: more than 99% of our molecules are water molecules. Evidence suggests that those 99% don't merely sit as the background carriers of the more important molecules of life, but are central participants. All that the cell does depends on water.
Water and Cell Biology: Contemporary views of cell biology consider water merely as a background carrier of the more important molecules of life. However, water may be a central player in life processes.
Information in Water: When reports of information storage in water surfaced in the late `80s, world reaction was skeptical. This seemed impossible. Water molecules are known to jiggle around randomly at a furious pace; there seemed no possible substrate for long-term memory.
That changed with the advent of EZ water. The structural lattice is essentially fixed. Oxygen and hydrogen atoms lodge at fixed positions within the lattice, and if any one of those atoms could get modified, that would constitute information. Modification possibilities abound: oxygen atoms have five possible oxidation states: -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. Hence the potential for high-density information storage is extraordinary.
Biological Motion: Up to the current millenium, biological motion had been the mainstay of this laboratory, the focus having been mainly on muscle contraction. The laboratory is known for building front-line instrumentation such as precision optical detectors and nanolevers for sub-nanometer length measurements, and for its penetrating tests of prevailing molecular theories. The award-winning 1990 book, Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion (www.ebnerandsons.com) outlines reasons why the prevailing lever-arm hypothesis is fundamentally inconsistent with available evidence, and goes on to suggest an alternative.
Origin of Life: Fresh evidence provides new clues for solving the mystery of how life began.
In exploring life’s origin, one conundrum has been the issue of how scattered molecules coalesce to form a condensed mass. Recent experimental results imply a potentially simple solution to this conundrum. In aqueous media, it has been long known that like-charged substances do not necessarily repel one another; they actually attract one another. Feynman referred to this paradoxical attraction as “like-likes-like” and went on to postulate that the attraction occurs because of the “unlikes” that inevitably gather in between, thereby creating the attractive force.
Integrative Medicine
What is integrative medicine?
Definition given by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) , US
Integrative Health
Integrative health brings conventional and complementary approaches together in a coordinated way. Integrative health also emphasizes multimodal interventions, which are two or more interventions such as conventional health care approaches (like medication, physical rehabilitation, psychotherapy), and complementary health approaches (like acupuncture, yoga, and probiotics) in various combinations, with an emphasis on treating the whole person rather than, for example, one organ system. Integrative health aims for well-coordinated care among different providers and institutions by bringing conventional and complementary approaches together to care for the whole person.
The use of integrative approaches to health and wellness has grown within care settings across the United States. Researchers are currently exploring the potential benefits of integrative health in a variety of situations, including pain management for military personnel and veterans, relief of symptoms in cancer patients and survivors, and programs to promote healthy behaviors.
What is whole person health?
Whole person health refers to helping individuals, families, communities, and populations improve and restore their health in multiple interconnected domains—biological, behavioral, social, environmental—rather than just treating disease. Research on whole person health includes expanding the understanding of the connections between these various aspects of health, including connections between organs and body systems.
Complementary Health Approaches
Complementary approaches can be classified by their primary therapeutic input (how the therapy is taken in or delivered), which may be:
Nutritional (e.g., special diets, dietary supplements, herbs, and probiotics)
Psychological (e.g., mindfulness)
Physical (e.g., massage, spinal manipulation)
Combinations such as psychological and physical (e.g., yoga, tai chi, acupuncture, dance or art therapies) or psychological and nutritional (e.g., mindful eating)
Nutritional approaches include what NCCIH previously categorized as natural products, whereas psychological and/or physical approaches include what was referred to as mind and body practices.
A practitioner like Dr Peter Eng employs some of these modalities for each patient depending on the particular requirement for the individual. Read about Peter's Protocols by clicking on the button below.
Penang Integrative Medicine Hub
Integrative medicine
The Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health
For integrative medicine professionals and students at academic health centers and health systems, the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health (the Academic Consortium, or ACIMH) is the world’s most comprehensive community for advancing the practice of whole health, with leading expertise in research, clinical care, and education. By consolidating the top institutions in the integrative medicine space, all working in unison with a common goal, the Academic Consortium is the premier organizational home for champions of whole health.
Together with over 80 highly esteemed member institutions from the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico, our collective vision is to transform the healthcare system by promoting integrative medicine and health for all.
Examples of the membership:
Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
UCLA Integrative Medicine Collaborative
Yale University School of Medicine
Veterans Health Administration
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Mayo Clinic
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Duke Integrative Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Penn State University
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
University of Washington: UW Integrative Health Program
What is in this hub
Penang Integrative Medicine Centre for Clinical Research and Therapy
Chelation Centre
Compounding Pharmacy
Educational Programmes
Board Certification Specialist Courses
Palm Oil as an Example
Prof Yuen's message on palm oil
" It all started in the US by the Soybean Growers Association which claimed that our palm oil is bad for health because of its saturated fatty acid content. However, many studies conducted overseas, US included, showed palm oil to be safe and does not lead to any health issues in terms of cardiovascular risk factors. Moreover, it a good oil for frying because it is very resistant to degradation at high temperature compared to many other edible oils. In fact combining palm oil with soybean oil at 1 to 1 ratio, has the ideal fatty acid composition and the said combination has been patented and sold as smart balance previously. The reason for Soybean Growers Association to attack palm oil is because palm oil is much cheaper to produce. For the same land area, oil palm produces 10 times more oil than soybean per year. There also have been studies conducted in Europe comparing palm oil and olive oil in a selection population of volunteers which showed no difference in cardiovascular risk factors after consuming both oils for a certain study duration.
Now the issue of palm oil as being unhealthy has died down, Europe is now attacking palm oil from a different angle, that is on deforestation or land clearance for oil palm planting which thus deprive orang hutans of their habitats, which again is not true. Malaysia has good land management policies, no more land opening for oil palm planting except converting rubber plantations to oil palm. For that reason, Indonesia has overtaken Malaysia as the number one producer of palm oil. Again. the reason behind such campaign is to protect their own edible oil crops such as sunflower oil safflower oil etc because planting of such oil crops produces less oil than oil palm for the same land acreage and therefore the oils from these crops are more expensive."
So at first it was bad because of saturated fats. When that no longer works, switch to saving the environment?
How distortion in scientific intepretation is used for propaganda
Palm oil has been vilified for a number of reasons. Science is used as justification. In this case it is alleged that consuming saturated fats is bad for health. Hence palm, like coconut oil is said to consist of too much saturated fats.
How true is this?
To understand how we come to believe that saturated fats is bad, we need to trace the history back to the early days of nutritional science. The move to vilify saturated fats is associated with the notion that cholesterol could be bad. Both positions are based on flawed scientific bases. Pushed by a loud Harvard professor who succeeded in silencing others who raised concerns about his conclusions. For some reason the media latch on to this and the US government soon followed with campaigns couched as public health education.