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The Inventor of the MRI on Real Science Radio

This is the show from Friday, February 19th, 2016

SUMMARY:

* Raymond Damadian on RSR: Real Science Radio co-host Bob Enyart interviews Raymond Damadian, inventor of the MRI magnetic resonance imaging device. If you love learning about the history of scientific discovery, inventions, and absolute truth, you will absolutely LOVE listening to today’s program! A year ago Bob logged onto Wikipedia to edit the entry on the MRI after noticing that the events listed in the History section of that article were out of chronological order. After making a minor change, moving the sentence about Dr. Damadian earlier in the section to where it belonged chronologically, Bob noticed that the heavy-handed Darwinist editors at Wikipedia, obviously seeking to diminish the contribution of young-earth creationist Damadian, reversed Bob’s correct and to the day of our interview, they insist on presenting the History of the MRI out of chronological order. Selah.

* Upright MRI: Dr. Damadian explains the benefits of the latest development in MRI technology, the Upright MRI. This technological advance help doctors treat patients with spinal column ailments, MS, and many other health challenges. Just click on the image for more information, and check out the doc's informative website at fonar.com.

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* Damadian Not a "Real Scientist" But an MD: Dr. Damadian and Bob Enyart discussed a couple of the objections that the scientific community had to recognizing him as the inventor of one of the greatest advances in physics in the realm of medical science. One objection is that he is a biblical (i.e., young earth) creationist. A second objection is that Raymond Damadian is not a "real" scientist but only a medial doctor. Bob pointed out a parallel instance whereby creationist will ignore the work, including astounding confirmed discoveries, of Dr. Walt Brown, PhD from MIT in mechanical engineering, because he is not a professional geologist. [After today's program, during their off-air discussion, Dr. Damadian happily agreed to receive a copy of RSR's Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory video. If you enjoy these excerpts of that educational presentation, please consider getting a Blu-ray or DVD or download of the full video!

 

6days

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Interesting, but not totally surprising that Wiki won't go with facts when it gives credibility to a Biblical creationist.
 

gcthomas

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Damadian is rightly recognised as an important contributor, but no one person can lay claim to have 'invented MRI scanners', even Damadian who eventually abandoned his ineffective design and adopted the gradient based design of his nemesis and Nobel Prize winner, Lauterbur.

(If the intended parallel is to Brown's "astounding" discoveries being rejected because he is not a geologist, that is laughable. His hypotheses are rejected firstly because most scientists don't read crank proposals, and secondly because if an actual scientist does read them they reject them as laughable.)
 

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gct, in our Global Flood and Hydroplate Theory video we show a newspaper photo of Walt and Bob Dietz together (Dietz, who coined the term seafloor spreading, see http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/developing.html) and we discuss that he and Walt had a friendly relationship and they met for geology discussions in Dietz office once a week throughout two semesters. Bob seems to have been more gracious than Walt's typical critics. Those who watch the video find out some of what Dietz learned from Walt and about their gentlemen's bet.
 
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