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Science can devise solutions to problems like Parkinson's, eventually. The article discusses a few items in the current search-- a good start. If you want bett
by cryoshon 11y ago
Science can devise solutions to problems like Parkinson's, eventually. The article discusses a few items in the current search-- a good start.
If you want better results than an amorphous "someday", you're not gonna get it with our society's current level of engagement with science. Science isn't lucrative, and the public doesn't care about anything other than the usually overstated "breakthrough" headlines.
You want diseases to be cured? Make science a priority rather than something extraneous. Get the children and the public excited about science again, then try to steal smart and qualified people from other disciplines with outstanding benefits and hard problems. Make sure there's enough patience and funding (in that order!) to really delve into things.
- mhkool 11y agoThe work of Dr Bredesen deserves more than some negative rumbling. Dr Bredesen comes with a treatment that has a solid basis: do everything possible that is anti-inflammatory. And he reversed (that is the technical term for 'cured') severe memory loss and the patients that were unable to work, were able again to work after a few months of treatment. That is most certainly a breakthrough since before the work of Dr Bredesen there were only medicines that could slow down the disease.
- cryoshon 11y agoAs a scientist I'm interested in his results, but highly skeptical. Let's see someone else replicate them.