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"we've come a long way" That's your takeaway? It's like we're reading two completely different versions of HN ;) I'm so jaded from all these medical and scient
by charlesism 11y ago
"we've come a long way"
That's your takeaway? It's like we're reading two completely different versions of HN ;) I'm so jaded from all these medical and scientific miracles of which we're constantly on the cusp. I wish there were a content-blocker that somehow removed links to any story regarding a breakthrough that hasn't already occurred. Future "cures" and "revolutionary treatments" are a dime a dozen, and nobody bothers to write an article when they don't actually pan out.
- dang 11y agoYes, it's a problem. Where are all the articles about confirmed breakthroughs, say of work that was done 10 years ago? Are there really so few of those?
- majormajor 11y agoWe have, overall, come a long way medically in the past hundred years, but I'd be very interested in an article that looked at how much of that was revolutionary breakthroughs and how much was incremental. And how much was both: e.g. being able to transplant many organs for the first time in the 20th century, and then the gradual increase in post-transplant life-expectancies since then. (And that's an area with a potentially scary future, too, if the superbug scare proves to be more real/less media hype than many positive "breakthroughs.")