My personal thoughts on the state of some scientific affairs:

I am a specialist in one of the following areas, but had some interest in others.
In any case, I'm not going to indulge in any discussion on these matters - I just do not have any time. The information provided is for your enlightenment - if you choose so. As with my sailing project - take it or leave it.

Let us start from seismology.
When earthquakes hit, seismologists tell us the intensity of the quake. I live in an earthquake zone, where a "big one" is expected any time. Scientists tell us that it will probably happen in the next two hundred years. Wouldn't it be nice if they could tell us that it could hit next week, or certainly not tomorrow? As you may already know, some animals behave strangely prior to quakes, days and even weeks before they hit. There are also several humans that can feel the signals much before quakes hit, like Charlotte King and Geoffrey Alien.
Unfortunately, general scientific consensus is that EARTHQUAKES CANNOT BE PREDICTED. In part, this is true, because we, humans, led by our scientific ‘crème de la crème’, CAN NOT! On the other hand, this is false. Here is a Reuters news after The Tsunami:

Where are all the dead animals? Sri Lanka asks
29 Dec 2004 07:21:00 GMT

COLOMBO, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

Giant waves washed floodwaters up to 3 km (2 miles) inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards.
" The strange thing is we haven't recorded any dead animals," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of the national Wildlife Department, told Reuters on Wednesday.
" No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit," he added. "I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."
At least 40 tourists, including nine Japanese, were drowned.
The tsunami was triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, which sent waves up to 5-metres (15-feet) high crashing onto Sri Lanka's southern, eastern and northern seaboard, flooding whole towns and villages, destroying hotels and causing widespread destruction.

So, the smartest species on this planet suffer and get killed when surprised by ‘unpredictable’ disasters. Stupid animals flee…
What an arrogance and shame. Perhaps something will change if the next tsunami hits Los Angeles, Vancouver or Sidney, and kills another hundreds of thousands of ‘supreme beings’. Influential scientists live and work there, not in Sri Lanka or Indonesia.
But I wouldn’t bet: seismologists prefer academic discussion on validity of VAN Method claims over deciphering actual subtle signals from nature – the latter might be a tedious job!
So folks, who would you like to follow in case of an incoming disaster – superior or inferior leaders? I vote for superior ones – rabbits, cats, birds…

Good luck to us all!!!

While we are on the subject of detecting subtle signals, think about 'early' medical diagnostics. Suppose an unfortunate person who is bound to get cancer (one of at least 30% of all of us), decides to visit the best 'early diagnostics' facility every day - from now on. Some day, say 10 years from now, the diagnostician announces the sad, but somehow expected, news: You have cancer! What does this mean? It wasn't there a day before! It developed overnight? Don't make me laugh. Of course it was there, probably months and years before 'evidence based medicine' discovered it. Yet, medical scientists are stubbornly sticking to their 'evidences' and will readily reject any fresh ideas that are not within their understanding, doctrine and scope.

Like seismologists, they enjoy comfort, resources, fancy technologies, financial and public support. And that's not enough. Our local Cancer Foundation is currently selling Lifestyle Lottery. For $100, you can win a house with a "Million Dollar View". Perhaps they could start a hamburger division of the Foundation - there is still a lot of money in fast food. But money is not a cure for cancer, and it will never be. It's knowledge, and understanding of life and its secrets.
Only new breed of scientists can make a change: people like distinguished gentlemen Gaston Naessens, Harry Oldfield and Dr. Gerrard J. Hyland, and those fine ladies Valerie Hunt and Barbara Ann Brennan - apologies to those not mentioned here. But there are no appropriate job openings in cancer industry for such a scientific profile...

Speaking of cancer, medical scientists in some European countries have long established an extremely strong link between radiation above underground water streams and cancer (and many other chronic and degenerative diseases). There are research centers in Germany, France, Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Poland... that deal with so called Geopathic or Geopathogenic zones and stress. When will mainstream Western medicine start tackling this problem?

To my knowledge, nobody in North America works on it (except, of course, 'garage scientists').

Alarmingly, even independent organizations like the Terry Fox Foundation in Canada, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in USA have not shown any interest in this type of cancer prevention. Do they think that the aggressive anti-smoking campaign will make it all?

I remember when the President of a Medical Association at the time said in an interview that 'they cannot work much on prevention - what will they do then'! Astonishing...

Here is what Dr. Paul Seeger, Former Chief of Cancer Research in Charite Hospital in Berlin, said about this issue: "No serious-minded criticism, be it ever so prejudiced, can afford to ignore proofs of the existence of pathogenic telluric influences. Hundreds of cancer institutes all over the world have spent billions (this was in 1975) without having found any convincing proof of cancer's cause. Why has it not been possible to spend a few million of that huge sum for a thorough investigation of telluric radiation as a prime cause of cancer in human beings. Why has this newly discovered continent of knowledge not been applied to cancer prevention?"

Interestingly, there was a remarkable American who specialized in this area - Dr. Manfred Curry. One of several peculiar energy grids is named after him - the Curry grid. Incidentally, he is one of oldest members of the Sailing World Hall of Fame.

Closely related to telluric radiation is man-made electromagnetic radiation of various frequencies and from various sources. Scientists are fully aware of a definite link (although they maintain it is only a weak possibility) between EMR and ill health, but just because they do not understand "mechanisms of biological damage", the public is left out on the limbo.

Referring back to the topic of underground water streams, they do not quite fit into the modern hydrology and its explanation of the natural water cycle. It was Leonardo da Vinci who some 500 years ago proposed a model of the Earth with underground rivers and streams circulating from "the utmost depths of the sea to the highest summits of the mountains", not obeying the rules of gravity. It's been estimated that 90% of water circulates within the Earth, only 10% by means of the traditionally accepted cycle of evaporation of water masses, condensation and downpouring. How else can mineral and thermal springs, geysers and oasis water be explained? And of course, springs of clean, cold and perfectly tasty water on mountain tops...Today, there is a potable water crisis - no doubt about that. Yes, potable water can be tapped almost anywhere - but pinpointing the exact drilling spot needs some expertise. Unfortunately, and not strangely, this expertise is not taught at the "brand name" universities. Interestingly enough, it is offered at dowsing conventions and seminars around the world. Experts fall, again, into the 'garage scientist' category - just like many others who work in early medical diagnostics, quake prediction and some other very important areas of study. Should we talk about malfeasance? Does the public have a right to potable water, disease prevention, better medical care, catastrophic events warning? And who is obliged to provide those, without any hesitation and calculation? Well, we live in freedom and democracy - who cares about few weird individuals.

Happy sailing ... and don't sleep above underground water veins!!!