Literature

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Literature

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The scarily big literature database has swelled in recent months as I have found more and more work on the subjects covered by Considera.

This literature serves a few purposes. One is to show that there is a large academic input to biodynamics and (particularly) agrohomeopathy despite both disciplines being outliers to the orthodoxy.

However, it really becomes useful when those dry papers are combed for the results - usually a couple of lines in amongst the haystack of the necessary academic form - and these results are put into the materia medica. You need to be a bit of an obsessive to do this and fortunately I do have that club in my characterological bag. So far I'd day about 75% of that literature has been 'processed' and I will try to bring that up to 100.

Because that literature database - aka bibliography - is so unwieldy I have put in a crude filter to sort out some categories. Let me know if you want more ..

I was left with a mild irritant. For the majority of entries I can direct interested folk to the source and so the titles are blue - ie they are hyperlinks to the source. But the script which pulls all that info from the database still turned the title blue even if there was no link to go to. I am no coder but I knocked together an appalling attempt to avoid this (blue) red-herring ... but failed. A friend put my scrappy code through Chat GPT and it returned the code all safe and modern and effective. I am stunned! The robots are coming folks.
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Re: Literature

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With the general upgrade of the site this filter has been improved so that biodynamic and agrohomeopathic literature can be separated at the click of a button - and then these can also have only literature revealed from peer reviewed journals.

And then - oh frabjous day - you can sort by date or title or author ... either up or down. How much fun is that?

Don't forget that the real work in all of this has been to abstract what is useful to growers out of this library and this has been (and is still being) extracted and sorted into the materia medica and repertory. This forms the all-important link between the research (often isolated in its ivory towers working for the pure love of learning) and the practitioner often beavering away untainted by the wealth of knowledge of their academic bretheren.

Enjoy!
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