The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Practice, Analysis, and Methodology

M. R. Islam, Jaan S. Islam, Gary M. Zatzman, M. Safiur Rahman, M. A. H. Mughal

• Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781119184218
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most important industries in the world, offering new medicines, vaccines, and cures to a global population. It is a massive industry, worthy of a deep and thorough examination of its processes and chemistry, with a view toward sustainability. The authors describe what is and isn't truly sustainable, offering a new approach and a new definition of the sustainability of pharmaceutical and chemical engineering and the science behind it. This is a cutting-edge work, aimed at engineers, scientists, researchers, chemists, and students.

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 Opening Remarks¹

A professor of medicine in Canada was asked if there is any cure in modern era of any contemporary disease. After some reflection, he named penicillin as the only medicine that cures a disease. “Why then do physicians routinely ask if a patient has ever taken penicillin in his lifetime?”, he was asked. This time the professor was quick in replying, “Oh, that’s because today’s penicillin is synthetic (artificial)”. Of course, that poses the pointed question of whether there is any medicine today that is not artificial. The same question was posed five years later, this time to an American professor of medicine. He couldn’t come up with any medicine. When the name penicillin was mentioned to him, he quipped, “Oh, penicillin is the proof that modern era has no medicine that cures; it only delays the symptoms”.

This book is about finding cause of diseases and proposing cures. Taking the time to look into the real science and moving away from dogma science that has incapacitated European education system for many centuries, this book invokes a paradigm shift.

The starting point of this book is: Nature is perfect. This is not a new theme per se. It is a new, indeed revolutionary, theme that is fervently disallowed with a near-fanatical obsession in our current era. The ancient Greeks had this theme, as did the ancient Chinese, Indians, and Mayans. This theme reached its culmination in the works of Avicenna, the father of modern medicine, whose most famous medical work, out of nearly 450 treatises, includes the 14-volume Canon of Medicine. The Canon of Medicine covered every single subject of medicine, all of the known diseases and treatments, methods for testing new treatments, diagnosis, etc. It was a standard full-version medical textbook, used for centuries all over the known world including Europe until the 17th century. Avicenna looked at the theoretical aspect, covering fields of cosmology, the temperaments and humours, etc. He then examined basic anatomy, physiology and phycology. In the second part, he examined health disorders. There, he covered definitions, causes of disease, dietetics, pulse, urine analysis and so on. Finally, he looked at treatment of disease and preservation of health.

Today, meanwhile, we don’t know the root cause of a single disease, let alone knowing the cure.²

Today’s medical science does not include determining cause of a disease, let alone suggesting a cure. Every theory of diagnosis, prediction, and remedy involves dogmatic premises that go unchallenged for centuries. Basically, the modern medicinal system has four major shortcomings. They are:

• the cause of deadliest diseases are unknown;
• when the origin of a disease is believed to be bacterial, all antibiotics used are synthetic;
• vaccines are introduced without knowing the cause of a disease that they are supposed to immunize against; and
• the role of lifestyle on human health is not understood.

In terms of science, it comes from (all these are “New Science”-related):

• conflation of human traits with Godly traits;
• incorrect and illogical narration of origin of universe, universal order, and life on earth;
• incorrect and illogical characterization of nature and sustainability criterion;
• disconnection of conscience from humanity;
• lack of characterization of human thought material (HTM);
• disconnection between matter and energy;
• absence of scientific criteria for defining disease and disorder;
• disconnection between mental and physical disorder; and
• theories of illogical and incoherent fundamental premises.

The above shortcomings have rendered modern science incapable of cognizing in the right direction, the direction in which cognitive processing of data is completed to some explicit point. Everything is done to justify the conclusion in an overt display of preposterous cognition — which is more illogical than dogma. In social science (as well as medical science), the crisis is most acute. We don’t even know what makes a human. If one goes by the definition of ‘selfishness defining humanity’ and/or ‘making tools is the sign of human intelligence’, violent chimps that make tools to hurt others are humans (Viegas, 2015), along with feuding Neanderthals in Europe (National Geography, 2008). If we have to go by DNA similarity or complexity, plants would be more human than humans. In defining humanity, everything is on the table — except … conscience! Scientifically, conscience should be the criterion that defines humanity, but Europe disconnected conscience from Humanity soon after dogma became enthroned. This is just the beginning of cognitive malfunction that created today’s technological disaster and infinite social injustice. Masked for centuries in the form of generalized Eurocentric bias valorizing any scientific finding in Europe or America ahead of science produced outside Europe, this has been difficult to isolate, challenge or eliminate.

A component piece of the theoretical outlook framed by the present work is the notion that anyone other than the human being has no need of empathy in order to act conscientiously. On the contrary: they are part of universal order and hardwired to be conscientious – as part of the universal order. Humans need to be conscious about their intention and have the ability to act on self-interest in the short term or self-interest in the long term (this is acting on conscience). This notion in itself is not Eurocentric: indeed it is captured in the concept of karma and is very old. New Science — which is Eurocentric at its core — disconnected this process and everything became about self-interest in the short term. Dogma, meanwhile, was useful for the anti-social purposes of unjust rulers in the East no less than in the West. The bifurcation between science and nonsense became possible and actual to the extent that dogma and Eurocentrism shared a common aim.

This understanding of the matter helps illuminate why it is no surprise that today we cannot explain any phenomenon without resorting to dogmatic assertions and spurious justifications. This ranges from diagnosis of a disease to prediction, from remediation to prevention, and from simplest of disorders to deadliest of diseases. We do not know what causes addiction, light pollution, noise pollution, and numerous other insults to the environment and human thought material, let alone attempting to remedy them. In the meantime, drugs, vaccines, and perpetual therapies and ‘management tactics’ continue to sell at an unprecedented pace and economy. The driver of this runaway train bound for ‘technological disaster’ continues to flourish, keeping all concerned content with the status quo.

Another element that frequently goes missing in medical scientific research is what the authors call ‘metadata’.

In this book, the authors set up logical theories that address the above shortcomings and properly defines what constitutes disorder, both mental and physical. It then presents a guideline for preventing and correcting disorder, both cognitive and physiological.

1.2 Are we Trained to Develop Contempt for Conscience and Addiction to Selfishness?

Plato said, “Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.” Few question the notion that this ‘strange times’ is now when it comes to politics. However, fewer understand the science behind this ‘strange times’, even fewer appreciate how this ‘strange times’ have pervaded all aspects of our civilization, and practically no one sees this as a problem in the science and technology development sector. Many dislike the current system but few see the big picture and the direction that our civilization is moving and none can tell us how to fix the system.

According to former U.S. President George W. Bush, the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, DC and many others, the maintenance of beliefs by any individual that counter officially accepted views is a personality disorder of such toxicity as to mandate deployment of an entire system for attacking the psyche of such individuals until they “crack” or are destroyed. As a 2006 article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine disclosed, this was indeed the object of an elaborate and carefully-planned program of government-funded research. As part of this research, an entire regime of randomized psychological “torture-testing” of people was launched and justified as an effort to catch lies and liars in general on the basis of refining and overcoming the defects of polygraph technology in particular. To grasp the decadence implicit in this proposition, consider the underlying logic of this matter launched during the Bush Administration and continuing to date:

• Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists (MAJOR PREMISE)
• Those who are with us never lie (MINOR PREMISE); therefore
• All liars must be terrorists and all terrorists must be liars (CONCLUSION)

The authors have been striving more than a decade to further develop a genuine paradigm shift emerging in the education system that teaches real science and avoids dogma ‘science’ (Islam et al., 2013). Well aware, meanwhile, of the fact that ‘paradigm shift’ is a popular buzzword, we have anticipated readers’ skepticism about such a claim and now hoist the following flag from our mast.

1.3 Metadata

It is to be expected that Humankind’s consciously-collected and recorded collective medical knowledge would predate the rise of European civilization. Relative to the length of time humans have been present on the Earth, on the other hand, this development is not so far back as many might think. Early in the 20^th century, records of such knowledge were known — from findings of collected by archaeological expeditions organized from the UK and Germany in the late 19^th century — to date back to at least the 3^rd millennium BCE.³ More recently, even earlier records of acupuncture and other Chinese medical practices have been dated as far back as the 5^th millennium BCE.⁴

With these earliest instances, however, we generally lack significant information about the depth of theoretical understanding attached to these evidences back in their own time. As a consequence, systemic explanations of these medical practices could not be provided. At the same time, the importance of immediate specifics of, and conditions surrounding/attending, what was recorded loom correspondingly large.

The possible scientific value or significance of the information content of such specifics is thus entirely tangential. At the same time, until more information is available to fill the void, these specifics are not without some potential probative value. Their value is very much like that of the metadata generated with computerized logging of data being generated by or within any activity that has been placed under some kind of organized observation. Generically speaking: in this sense, such pieces of associated information — data falling outside the immediate focus of interest — can be considered to constitute the metadata of the phenomenon.

The idea of metadata has become widely popularized in connection with Edward Snowden’s disclosures of the meth...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Current State of the World of Big Pharma
• Chapter 3: HSS®A® Degradation In New Science
• Chapter 4: The Hopelessness of New Science
• Chapter 5: Mass, Energy and Time: A Delinearized History
• Chapter 6: Newton & Einstein: A Delinearized Deconstruction
• Chapter 7: The Nature-Science Approach: Conclusions of Book I
• References and Bibliography
• Index