How can a biological system like biestmilch eventually break ground? How can hypotheses, speculations, scientific data turn just for a sudden into unquestioned facts? Is it all about “street” credibility and alliances, about networking and communication flow? After so many years of grass root work and collecting experience from zero with biestmilch I think data become the vehicles for carrying facts later in the day, when trust evolved through time.
Facts are facts when a consensus among a larger crowd finally was achieved. Now, obviously the time has come when biology cannot avoid to pick up the subject of complexity, of systems, networks and interrelations anymore. Regulatory aspects are suddenly of concern. The regulation of a system by positive and negative feedback loops, downstream and upstream regulation processes become “socially” accepted. One name the various terms borrowed from various thought worlds indicating the drift of thinking – one may even call it a paradigm shift, a big word I don’t like, it is simply too big, and pretends an easy way out with one straightforward conclusion. I don’t like this either.
Biology has not developed its own new identity yet, it may be on the way … Data put more and more pressure on biologists and change is therefore imminent. Modern experimental tools force them into a world of different metaphors that are more apt to interpret the experiments as the formerly given ones dominated by Waston and Crick’s dogma of unidirectionality. We hope that biestmilch so old and so modern in the same breath is prospering from this development.
