By Ambassador T. Brikins
President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fighting the "demon" of ebola.
The Ebola River in Northern Congo in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo.
“We need empirical solution to the cure of Ebola not
“divine” solution, was the conclusion of Bayo Olupohunda in his article, “Ebola
and a Pastor’s “divine “ solution”.(The Punch, Thursday, July 31, 2014).
But do we need divine solution to the cure of Ebola and
perhaps other diseases?
Scientific empiricism is based on or act on observation or
experiment, not on theory.
Writing on the topic,”
Problems of world civilization, Achievements and limitations of science and
technology” in the classical book, World Civilizations by Edward MacNall Burns, Phiip Lee Ralph, Robert E.Lerner and
Standish Meacham, said, “For solutions
they (Politicians and Civil Servants) have continued to turn, paradoxically, to
those agencies responsible, in many cases, for the creation of the problems:
science and technology.”
