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Lessons from Capt. Smith and Titanic
ALEN J Salerian MD
April 4, 2015
The spectacular difference between the advances in
technology versus social sciences has a simple answer: eigenvalues
The immense
influence of invisible forces – eigenvalues – is recognized by science and in
general overlooked in social sciences.. When an airplane crashes we analyze all
the data -visible and invisible- and reach relatively reliable conclusions. Each
accident is an invitation to prevent the next one.
Psychiatry
analyzes a plane crash caused by a suicidal pilot by DSM, the diagnostic
statistical manual of psychiatric disorders, a tool that is clueless about
eigenvalues. DSM views abnormal
behavior and brains as if they were potatoes or metal. You can never tell how
good a computer is by looking at it. DSM inquires :Is the computer fat, short large black or does it drink?
Political sciences
are equally inept in examining major disasters . Not that
political scientists do not know the answers but simply that the winners write
the history books. If you are the winner and you have killed millions of
people you would never learn from your own mistakes.
We did not learn
from Vietnam because we have been the
leader of the world. So not many of us have faced the truth that 1.5 Vietnamese and 50,000 Americans died and the killers got away with it. Not LBJ ,
or Mc George Bundy, not McNamara ever faced Nuremberg.
We have learned a lot from Titanic . Sadly we have not learned much
in psychiatry or political sciences.
It's not too late.
Let's introduce eigenvalues to social sciences.
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