"Controversy is a very vital part of the scientific process," says
Roger Gosden, an ovarian expert at Weill Cornell Medical School in New
York City. "It's the critical nature of science which gives it its
strength and authority."

"What anyone publishes is not really the corpus of scientific
knowledge unless it can be verified," says Gosden. "You don't get a
paradigm change until you have a consensus of expert opinion," he
says.

Gosden agrees the controversy has cast a spotlight on new questions
that would not have been investigated otherwise. And he doesn't see
any harm in revisiting the dogma with new technologies, quoting T.S.
Eliot's poem Little Gidding,

At the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

-- 
Peter L Borst
Danby, NY USA
42.35, -76.50
http://picasaweb.google.com/peterlborst

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