“The overriding philosophy of the laboratory is that science is essentially simple.”
Champion of the Fundamental Principles of SCIENCE
Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of WATER: A Multidisciplinary Research Journal;
Executive Director of the Institute for Venture Science; co-founder of 4th-Phase Inc.; and founder of the Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Water.
He has received numerous honors including: the Prigogine Medal for Thermodynamics; the University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecturer; the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award; and the 1st Emoto Peace Prize. He is recognized internationally as an accomplished speaker and author.
Gerald Pollack's full CV can be found here.
Philosophy of Science: The overriding philosophy of the laboratory is that science is essentially simple. Although intricacy is undeniable, the foundational principles are ultimately simple, and if a mechanism appears complicated — if you find it difficult to understand — then it is probably not because you are inept, but that the foundational “principle” on which it is based may itself not be correct. Sound mechanisms rarely rest on shaky foundations.
Pollack’s work has been oriented toward uncovering those fundamental principles. He targets areas in which understanding seems too complex to be valid, and penetrates — or at least tries to penetrate — toward the core of truth. Often the ideas that come out of these excursions are controversial, as they inevitably upset the status quo, sometimes at its very core. Hence, the reactions range from non-printable expletives at one extreme, to enthusiastic comments such as a recent one from a well-known physicist about his findings on water: “the most significant scientific discovery of this century".