Paradigmatic crisis and biomedical research

Abstract

The actual paradigm and the chemical physics conception established do not refer to any intercellular communication of an electromagnetic nature. But the scientific literature from 1970 to 2016 mentions another form of intercellular communication based on ultra-weak electromagnetic signals. Several works have been led by different research teams from different countries, who put forward the same data. Nonetheless, a paradigm was defined by Thomas Kuhn as the acceptance of a unifying theory within a sociological system of faith in the scientific community. Can we thus speak of a crisis of the actual paradigm? We can see in the light of these data a totally new phenomenon to the actual paradigm which appeared in 1923 up until now and was controversial, illustrated by an accumulation of anomalies that affected the founding principles of the actual paradigm. This analysis allowed us to highlight and list four precise indicators. In fact, it appears that; from the proliferation of rival variations of the actual paradigm, from the expressed dissatisfaction, from the numerous methodological approaches tested and from the multiple discussions on the founding principles of the actual paradigm; all the following criteria are the features proving the existence of a scientific crisis. The emergence of this anomaly led us to question once again the unifying theory of the actual paradigm. If such a paradigmatic crisis is in progress, it would allow us to suggest a new vision initiating a scientific revolution: a complementary intercellular communication, both chemical-physics and electromagnetic.