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Books, pdproducts, science, fashion and glam talk From Bollywood to Hollywood.
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It's Meet and greet with Doctor Ashan Hashmi right here
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on KURHD Radio and Talk for TV. And here's your host,
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international speaker, educator, award winning entrepreneur and best selling author,
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doctor Ashan Hashmi.
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Hello everyone, this is your loving host and best selling author,
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radio and TV personality doctor Rashan Hashmi live from her
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studio in Rockville, Maryland. And today I am talking about
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a book, you know. But before I start, I want
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to remind you that these are my two books. These
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are my two books. Let me see where it went.
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These are my two books. The first one is The
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Modern Local Mentality News Strategies to Succeed in India and
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the global marketplace. And the second one is The Outbreak
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of a monstrous infection. These two books were Amazon best
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sellers and hot number one new release on Amazon. And
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this one is Amazon bestseller. And I want a movie
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or a documentary to be made of the first book
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and the second book. I want a movie or a
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documentary to be made. He said that, folks, you know
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now I would like you. I would like you to
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tell you today's topic. And it is I will be
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reviewing this book of a famous scientist, The Road to
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Wisdom on Truth, Science, Faith and Trust, Francis S. Collins,
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l And it is worthy and worthy publishers. And this
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is the cover of the book. And let's read about
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this chapter one, searching for Wisdom in a Troubled time.
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More tears are shed in a science laboratory than you
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might think. When a scientist develops a hypothesis about how
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nature works, personal attachment develops. When that collapses, it can
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feel like a personal failure. I know about that. It's
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nineteen eighty one, and after spending eleven years in graduate training,
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acquiring a PhD in chemistry, a medical degree, and four
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year residency in internal medicine, I'm finally getting a chance
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to conduct my own molecular biology research. I'm really excited,
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though I'm pretty green at these kind of experiments. I
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have joined a very competitive laboratory at Yale, surrounded by
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brilliant and highly competitive PhD scientists whose research skills totally
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drop mind. The lab is a buzz with energy and
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urgency at all hours. My mentor is the most brilliant
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person I have ever known, but he assumes way too
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much about my basic understanding of molecular biology, and I
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often find his conversations incomprehensible. At home, I have a
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wife who's seriously unhappy with our geographic location, and two
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young daughters who would benefit from a lot more of
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my attention than they are getting. The project that my
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mentor has assigned to me is bold and involves a
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new approach to recombinant DNA that might follow purifying chloring
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much larger segments of human DNA than had previously been possible.
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If the method works, many other labs will want to
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use it. I'm excited to be potentially on the leading
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edge of the revolution in biology. I'm working crazy hours,
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often dragging home at four am. Pilot experiments look promising,
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but my lab bench in experience means that progress is
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slow and my mentor is getting impatient gradually, And yeah,
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I can relate with that because you know the mentors,
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you know, they usually get very impatient. They give I
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am also PhD in biochemistry and CCP and Rack and
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I have worked for my PhD thesis in chemistry in
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bio in biochemistry, and my supervisor you know, would just
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give me a tell us what to do, and then
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you know, he would come and start saying that it's
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the experiment complete. Is the experiment complete? Then I went
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to Johns Hopkins and there when I would get up
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you know at four or at five thirty pm, my
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supervisor would come and give me, give me work.
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So so these supervisors they I don't know what they want.
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They want miracle to happen because research is very slow progress,
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you know. And my supervisor in India and here, if
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any in Johns Hopkins, if any uh, if any like
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the problem was there, like experiments have no guarantee that
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whether they are nice or what, and they would be
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they they would be very very very uh very very
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uh upset about that. So I can correlate with that
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and this and people get very very nervous and then
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they would set up some research assistance with you you know,
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like so so who would not know how to do
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an experiment. They are just doing their their bs or
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someone a master's and they would come and they they
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they would be asking questions. So that is another a
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loaded burden which which I had experience with. And then
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we used to have journal club every every week, and
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we have to prepare for that. But that journal club
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is helped me a lot because it gave me those
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skills to talk about research in public, and those shyness
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went away and boldness came away. Boldness came in. And
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and my father was also a very famous biochemist, you know,
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and my supervisor, you know, was his student. And but
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he was very impatient and every two three months, you know,
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he would go to Germany or America or anywhere, you know,
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and then you know, our research would fall back. And
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then he would communicate through letters and all, and and
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that was one of the hindrances there. And then they're
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the chemicals, you know, like we used to order chemicals
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from Sigma Company, and it would take long for us,
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you know, to get the chemicals. While if you are
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in New Delhi, you know, I was in Aliga. If
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you are in New Delhi, you would get the chemicals,
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you know, right right away. There was a lot of
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Sigma distributors and other things, distributors, you know, and then
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you But it was a small lab, but a very
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very productive lab, and it was open twenty four hours.
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So I had a very nice research experience in my
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alma matter, Aliga Muslim University, and here in Johns Hopkins.
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You know, I used to work late and that led
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to my decline of health. So I would go at
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nine and come back at twelve thirty in the night,
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you know. And I was not that expressive that to
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tell my supervisor that I cannot work more than you know,
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twelve hours or so. Because there were Japanese and Chinese,
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they have spoiled the culture of research in America. One
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would come, they would put the whole community would come
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and there were Japanese and Chinese in Johns Hopkins and
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they've had They would just sit there and they would
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bring their food and eat there and sleep there. And
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my supervisor used to say, see how how productive they are?
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So so this is what, you know, it was some
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of the issues. So I can really relate with him
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and let me tell you who this man is. So rebel,
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Please go on a break and I will be back soon.
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All right to control.
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Tears and bye by okay.
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The Road to Wisdom on Truth, Science, Faith and Trust
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Kinder addition from National Treasure Francisco Collins, Philippy and Cy
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the New York Times best selling author of the Language
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of God and former director of the National Institutes of Health,
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comes a deeply thoughtful guidebook to guest us beyond societal
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divisions and back to the sources of wisdom, the sort
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that can save us before it is too late. Jane Goodall.
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As the COVID nineteen pandemic revealed, we have become not
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just a hyperpartisan society, but also a deeply cynical one,
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distrustful of traditional sources of knowledge and wisdom. Specticism about
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the vaccines led to the needless death of at least
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twenty two black thirty thousand Americans. Do your own research
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is now a rallying try in many online rabbit holes.
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Yet experts can make mistakes and institutions can lose their
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moral campus. So how can we navigate through all this?
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In the Road of wisdom? Francis Collins remind us of
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the four core sources of judgment and clear thinking, truth, science, faith,
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and trust. Drawing on his work from the Human Genome
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Product and heading the National Institutes of Health, as well
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as on ethics, philosophy and Christian theology, Collins makes a
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robuts thoughtful case for each of these sources, their reliability
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and their limits. Ultimately, he shows how they work together,
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not separately, and certainly not in conflict. It is only
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when we relink these four foundations of wisdom that we
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can begin to discern the best part forward in life.
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So this is about the scientist, and he's a really
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famous scientist, and he's very popular and being ahead of
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an it's a very very big thing. So I was
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browsing through Amazon and I saw this book and I said,
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this is Francis Collins's book. Oh my god, I have
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to give the review of this book. And it's a
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very well written book, and you know you can relate
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with it as well as you know. I can see
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the religious part of this scientist and it is very
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well written. And I gave it five stars. Now I
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will come back after the break. Rebel, please play the
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The next day, I confess my failure to my research mentor.
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He doesn't seem particularly surprised. He just says I should
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start thinking about a new project. But I am not
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at all sure I want to do that. I asked
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to meet with the department chair who recruited me to
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come to Yale as a physician and a renowned researcher.
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He's also my most significant role model. I plan to
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tell him that I am considering leaving. He listens to
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my tale of woe, but surprises me by not being
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at all upset about it. Instead, he tells me his
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own story of his spectacular early research failure and points
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out how much he learned from that and how it
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made him a better scientist. A scientist is still awash
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with uncertainty about what to do. I do go to
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see my church pastor, who happens to be a former
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NASA engineer. He helped me see how failure is part
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of being both a believer and a scientist. He points
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me to a lot of examples of heroes of faith,
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from Moses through Paul, who have failed and yet preserved.
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A bit searching of the Bible turns up some remarkably
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appropriate versus. Take Crow Proverbs twenty four slash sixteen, for
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through the riteous falls seven times, they rise again, but
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the wicked stumble when calamity strikes. Well, God, I'd rather
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be righteous than wicked. I began to see how this
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set back could be survived, deriving wisdom from failure. Looking back,
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I now understand that this was a profoundly significant time
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when I might well have abandoned plans for medical research
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and chosen to do something entirely different. But ultimately away
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forward EMRTH. First, I had to give thanks that despite
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the failure of my project science and trumpend. The results
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hurt a lot because I deeply wanted my experiments to succeed,
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but it turned out that they were based on faulty
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understanding of nature. Yes, I can relate with this because
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some of my experiments, you know, were not working and
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I used to become very upset and I used to
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talk to my father and mother and my mood was off.
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So I could relate with this, and I would do
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the literature literature search or a lot you know of this,
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and now you know, like what is the best way
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is to discuss with your project supervisor that you what
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is your plan and what he wants from you, and
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then take the balance of that and go to a
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library and do a thorough literature search with all the
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experiments and all before starting the expect That is my
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advice to people who are doing who are doing thesis,
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and who are doing PhD in medical research or clinical research,
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and but you know you understand your subject, then do it.
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If you don't understand your subject, just tell your supervisor
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that you cannot do it. I was hired in Johns
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Hopkins to do ozone project, but instead of doing the
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ozone project, they gave me asthma relative projects of g proteins.
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I had never worked with neurotransmitters, and it was a
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very difficult project for me. I tried to talk my
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and when I went there was one supervisor was assigned
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to me and they would do oxidative stress, but I