14
The path to mainstream
This page provides online resources relating to Chapter 14 of Quantum Biology: A Glimpse into the Future of Medicine. Read a chapter extract, or scroll down to access additional resources published by The Guy Foundation, and a list of further reading.
… commercialising a medicine is never easy and the very nature of quantum effects will make it difficult to follow the classical path that a new painkiller or a novel gene therapy might take. On the plus side, there is already a significant amount of quantum research underway in several therapeutic areas and a number of effective interventions already rely on quantum effects for their operation. However, scientists tend to reason in very much the same way that I suggested you might do. If I produce a result, impressive as it may be, but it doesn’t seem plausible to my scientific audience, they will reject the result and they will reject the data. What we need to do when bringing quantum ideas into new areas of science is to create scientific plausibility.
We need to persuade people to take the medical implications of quantum effects seriously and to do that we must provide good empirical examples. As we saw at the start of this chapter, the examples are there to be found. But there needs to be a greater focus on the quantum effects which underlie them.
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