5th Edition of International Academic Meet on 27-28 March 2023, Malaysia | Scientists discover parasitic fungus which preys on spiders in Brazil

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                Backing up science 








trust in science. As an inquisitive person, I marvel at the scientific explanations of events happening around us. Also, as a doctor, I am enamoured of how science has unboxed the human body and its functions so intricately. But science is never completely foolproof. It is a continuously evolving tool to understand the universe, its existence, and the phenomena happening in it. There are still millions of things that are not completely explained by science. When patients pose the unavoidable question, “Is the treatment completely safe, or is there no other way around, doctor?”, I pause for a second before explaining them the improbabilities of medical science.

Our past is replete with instances where sometimes strictly relying on science and its recommendations can be catastrophic. A classic example in case is the incarceration of Mary Mallon. She was a 35-year-old Irish lady who joined as a cook in an affluent household in New York in 1906. A few weeks down the line, several family members developed typhoid, which then had significant mortality. The head of the family was a wealthy banker who immediately invited the services of a private investigator to identify the source of infection. The sleuth, after extensive enquiry, came to a startling observation that in six of the seven households where Mary had worked previously, there were outbreaks of typhoid and he promptly reported this to the banker and health authorities. Mary had no signs of typhoid either in the present or in the past, and vehemently denied any role in the typhoid outbreak. But medical authorities and police enforced their power and found that she was harbouring loads of typhoid bacilli in her stools. She was branded as a healthy carrier of typhoid bacilli, which was a new medical concept then.

5th Edition of International Academic Meet on 27-28 March 2023, Malaysia


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