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June 28, 2000, Anjetta McQueen of the Associated Press made banner
headlines with her report in major U.S. newspapers: a study of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Project
2061) showed that 9th through 12th grade biology textbooks uniformly
fail to convey "big ideas." This is grave news. It means that
entire future generations of Americans might not be adequately
educated in fundamental biology, the only remaining and still
largely unexplored major body of basic knowledge. Thus handicapped,
they might not be able to effectively cope with imminent critical
issues, including the following:
Looming danger
AIDS - a disease unknown 25 years ago - is devastating the human
population in entire sections of the African continent. In America
alone, 1500 men, women and children die of cancer everyday. There
is no cure for either. Drugs sold to alleviate suffering are developed
by the exceedingly expensive and inefficient methods of random
chance, and thus are unavailable to all but the wealthy. Even
more worrisome is the impending exhaustion (in 40 to 50 years)
of oil and natural gas, which now provide energy for virtually
all the essential activities of modern society - including drug
manufacturing and farming. The question is who is going to combat
and resolve these problems before it is too late? Whoever they
are, they must include students who are now taking, or will be
taking, courses in high school and college biology.
Quickly-Needed Change
We do not train soldiers by encouraging them to watch cartoons
all day long. Why then should we train our future scientist-warriors
by befuddling them with an unending regimen of Technicolor trivia?
Instead, we must train and prepare those who are qualified and
interested in becoming scientists to be honest, courageous and
dedicated to the search for truth. We must teach them how to think
for themselves and help them to develop the skills and habits
necessary to independently acquire knowledge from outside the
classroom. We must see to it that they grasp the essence of the
very latest fundamental biological truths. To achieve all this
quickly will not be easy. What is needed is a magic bridge. Fortunately,
Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level is just that… and more.
A Magic bridge to the Missing "Big
Ideas"
Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level is a magic bridge
leading to a hitherto invisible world of knowledge - a world based
on the Association-Induction (AI) Hypothesis, a unifying
theory of life at the cell and below-cell level. From its very
inception, the AI Hypothesis has generated a constellation of
subsidiary "big ideas," including the first and only theory of
how drugs control cell function in molecular and electronic terms.
The AI Hypothesis and
its subsidiary "big ideas" have long passed the stage of being
categorized as mere complex hypotheses. Over the past 40 years,
they have been validated, without exception, time and time again
by a steady, worldwide stream of experimentation and scientific
papers. The AI Hypothesis, its subsidiary "big ideas," and the
key experimental results that have validated them are the main
subjects of Life at the Cell and Below-Cell Level.
The book also offers a variety of ancillary materials that will,
in the course of perhaps a few days to a few weeks, help transform
seriously-interested readers into well-rounded authorities on
this major field of knowledge - so much so that they will, without
hesitation, take up the task of imparting this new knowledge to
others, or perhaps continue the research themselves. Only then
can they have an even chance of averting the disastrous course
that might follow and, instead, embark on a course of hope - a
course that will eventually lead to victory.
