B Lipton Quotes

Because we are not powerless biochemical machines, popping a pill every time we are mentally or physically out of tune is not the answer. Drugs and surgery are powerful tools when they are not overused, but the notion of simple drug fixes is fundamentally flawed. Every time a drug is introduced into the body to correct function A, it inevitably throws off function B, C, or D. It is not gene-directed hormones and neurotransmitters that control our bodies and our minds; our beliefs control our bodies, our minds, and thus our lives … Oh ye of little belief!

Democracy even in its ideal form is a Utopian political system, because some experiments from psychology support us with compelling evidence that subliminal messages and manipulation within political systems can deprive the ordinary men of their free choice, making them bio-social robots, who perceive and make judgment automatically with no or less cognition. In one relevant experiment had Dutch college students view a series of computer trials in which a string of letters such as BBBBBBB or BBbBBBB was presented on the screen. To be sure they paid attention to the display, the students were asked to note whether the strings contained a small b. However, immediately before each of the letter strings, the researchers presented either the name of a drink that is popular in Holland (Lipton Ice) or a control string containing the same letters as Lipton Ice (Npeic Tol). These words were presented so quickly (for only about one fiftieth of a second) that the participants could not see them. Then the students were asked to indicate their intention to drink Lipton Ice by answering questions such as “If you would sit on a terrace now, how likely is it that you would order Lipton Ice,” and also to indicate how thirsty they were at the time. The researchers found that the students who had been exposed to the ‘Lipton Ice” words (and particularly those who indicated that they were already thirsty) were significantly more likely to say that they would drink Lipton Ice than were those who had been exposed to the control words.

El doctor Lipton hizo un descubrimiento genial: se dio cuenta —en lo que él llamó su epifanía— de que el cerebro de la célula no es su núcleo, como hasta ahora se pensaba, sino la membrana, y desarrolló la teoría de la membrana mágica: Hizo la comparación de la célula con un microchip de ordenador cuando un día se dio cuenta de que la definición de este se correspondía con su definición de aquella. Por principio, cuando los componentes de una estructura se disponen siguiendo un patrón regular y repetido, se la considera un cristal. Existen los cristales fluidos, que es lo que vendría a ser una célula. Su membrana está compuesta de fosfolípidos que se adaptan a cualquier movimiento, alterando su forma sin perder la integridad. El doctor Lipton tomó plena conciencia de que la membrana es un cristal líquido. Más adelante, B. A. Cornell publicó un artículo en Nature confirmando la hipótesis de Lipton: La membrana es el homólogo de un chip de ordenador (Cornell y otros, 1997).10

Geneticists experienced a comparable shock when, contrary to their expectations of over 120,000 genes, they found that the entire human genome consists of approximately 25,000 genes. (Pennisi 2003a and 2003b; Pearson 2003; Goodman 2003) More than eighty percent of the presumed and required DNA does not exist! The missing genes are proving to be more troublesome than the missing eighteen minutes of the Nixon tapes. The one-gene, one-protein concept was a fundamental tenet of genetic determinism. Now that the Human Genome Project has toppled the one-gene for one-protein concept, our current theories of how life works have to be scrapped. No longer is it possible to believe that genetic engineers can, with relative ease, fix all our biological dilemmas. There are simply not enough genes to account for the complexity of human life or of human disease.