I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Wang Fuzhi took a great risk by criticizing Zhu Cheng's theory in front of the emperor.

But anyone who changed to a slightly normal emperor would press him out and chop him off.

Fortunately, Wu Changqing was not very normal, so he didn't do it, just let Wang Fuzhi say it.

Even he himself quite likes this methodology.

Promoting scientific methods of studying things contributes to the progress of society.

As for the influence on imperial power, this Wu Changqing didn't care.

As long as he is not overthrown in his lifetime, he does not care about the future.

Even, he knew that in the future, the empire he built would fall apart, which was an inevitable trend.

Wang Fuzhi's point of view has aroused opposition from many people, and fierce debates have been launched between the two sides.

In the end, there was no winner between the two sides.

Because, when people have a position, no one can convince anyone.

However, this does not mean that such debates are meaningless.

The purpose of the debate between the two sides is not to defeat the other party, but to reason through the debate, so that other people who do not have a position can distinguish.

From this point of view, Wang Fuzhi has clearly won the victory. His methodology is well-founded and more convincing than the somewhat illusory arguments of the opponents.

If all the people who came to the debate were ordinary people, the opposition might have won.

Because ordinary people don't like, or rather find it difficult to understand those profound truths, they tend to prefer the idealism that conforms to their subjective wishes.

It's a pity that the people who came to participate in the debate this time are all smart people. Maybe they are good at different fields, but they all have one thing in common, that is, smart.

These smart people are not so good at fooling around, they respect facts and evidence more.

This debate between the two sides has caused more people to abandon Zhu Cheng's philosophy and become interested in Wang Fuzhi's methodology.

According to Wang Fuzhi's research method, it is easier to trace the truth of this world.

The debate is not the only topic.

After Wang Fuzhi, another scholar, Lu Chenghua, an envoy of the Taiyuan Hospital, proposed a double-blind test method for testing drugs.

This, in fact, also belongs to Wang Fuzhi's methodology.

It's just that Wang Fuzhi's drawing is the general outline, while Lu Cheng's drawing is the detailed rules in the specific application.

Lu Chenghua proposed that to verify whether a drug has an effect on a disease, a double-blind test method must be used, otherwise the results obtained may be incorrect.

The current traditional Chinese medicine is basically based on experience.

For example, cough, drink a kind of medicine, continue to cough. Then I drank the B medicine and stopped coughing, so it was concluded that the B medicine could treat the cough.

The conclusions drawn from this empirical observation are sometimes correct, but many times they are not.

It is possible that the drug A is actually effective, but the effect is slow.

It is also possible that both the B medicine and the A medicine are ineffective, but the human body heals itself when drinking the B medicine, which just happens to be.

Or, in fact, the B drug is only effective for certain specific groups of people, and so on.

The world is extremely complex, and it is often wrong to draw conclusions from simple observations.

It is precisely because no one has summed up this problem before, so when treating patients, they often do their best and obey the destiny.

If the doctor is cured, it is the doctor's credit. If the doctor is not cured, it is God's will.

Yes, idealism again.

The reason why bad guys like idealism the most is that idealism cannot be falsified.

They say it is God's will, and no one can prove them wrong. After all, God's will does not exist at all.

Lu Chenghua's double-blind test method is not as complete as the double-blind test method of later generations, for example, it does not take into account the psychological effect of comfort.

Can't blame him, after all, he's just a doctor, not a psychologist.

However, his double-blind test method still has a very positive and progressive significance. If it is implemented, it can elevate traditional Chinese medicine to a whole new level.

The current medicine is too backward.

Even the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which is known as a masterpiece, has very absurd prescriptions in it.

For example, Liang Shangchen can cure death by hanging.

The dust on the beam can save those who hanged and died not long ago.

Li Shizhen is a saint who has made a lot of contributions, and will definitely not miss a few records.

It is very likely that a person who has not died from hanging has been irritated by the dust and choked and coughed.

From the observation of outsiders, Liang Shangchen could cure the death by hanging.

Basically, the prescriptions recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica or other medical books are based on experience.

These experiences work for some and not for others.

The reason is because there is no scientific research, test, and summary method.

The double-blind test method solves this problem.

Just like Wang Fuzhi was criticized, the double-blind test method proposed by Lu Chenghua was also severely criticized.

Some people always believe in authority.

When a certain book or a certain kind of thought has achieved high achievements, it will have a certain admiration for it later, so as to be superstitious about its correctness.

This is not to mention the contemporary people, even if someone in later generations said that there are shortcomings in the Compendium of Materia Medica, there will definitely be a lot of people jumping out and scolding the scriptures and forgetting their ancestors.

When they cursed, they forgot that there is no Compendium of Materia Medica in the rest of the world, and other people are still alive and kicking.

Wang Fuzhi did not say that the Compendium of Materia Medica is not good, he just said that the prescriptions on the Compendium of Materia Medica need to be verified one by one, and as a result, some people madly sprayed them.

"I think this double-blind test method is very good, and the future medical development should be in this direction. It's just not applicable to the present, there are not so many medicinal materials, and there is not so much energy and financial resources to carry out this kind of experiment.

Of course, it is still possible to conduct some double-blind tests on a small scale, and such tests are also performed for some of the more common ailments. "

Wu Changqing was a little unhappy listening to the remarks of those opponents, so he simply spoke in person to interrupt the controversy.

In his opinion, the double-blind test is correct, there is no need to dispute it.

However, in reality, the right things may not necessarily apply.

Just like this double-blind test, it is extremely troublesome, time-consuming, energy-consuming, and financial-consuming, even if it is to be done in the future.

In Dahua's current situation, it does not apply.

At present, it is still necessary to use the prescription summed up from experience.

This method of treating diseases based on experience is actually quite advanced in the world today.

In Europe, bloodletting is now popular. When encountering any intractable disease, he would bled the patient when he was helpless.

Some patients actually recover after a period of time by their own immunity.

Bloodletting is done when the person is about to recover, and when the person recovers, everyone will say that this is the result of the bloodletting.

In more cases, the blood has been drained, people have died, and the disease has not been cured.