THE GREAT BLUNDER: FLAWS IN PHYSIOLOGY
Myology, a branch of neurology, is the science that studied the skeletal muscles and their functions very meticulously. Thus the contents of muscles with their structures, like specialised blood and lymph supply, myoglobin, mitochondria, nerve fibres etc are very well known. The fact that muscles have protein strains that slide into each other to produce contraction or shortening of length is unique to this tissue.
The physiology (study of the functions) of muscles, which is a very complex matter, has been thorough but not without flaws. It has left many questions unanswered. Somehow, the existing tools used to study muscle function are not adequate to study living tissue. Unfortunately science has used its own limited methods and studied muscles as if they were like elastic bands that responded to electrical currents. Nature is much more complex than that and its laws are even more complicated. For the moment logic and not electrophysiology would be a better method to study living tissue like muscles. I am sure that one day there will be advanced ways of analysis that will give us better clues about the way life processes function, but until then some old-fashioned methods like logic and common sense may be more effective in the explanations.
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