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I'm not sure if I'd say that "the real headline here is that these people have no fucking idea what they are doing" - the headline really is that some researche
by nappy 11y ago
I'm not sure if I'd say that "the real headline here is that these people have no fucking idea what they are doing" - the headline really is that some researchers have seen an exciting result in combating Parkinson's.
Medicine is really really hard, and our understanding of the human body and the interactions it has with various chemicals and compounds is limited- but do these researchers have no idea what they're doing? That they started a trial on Parkinson's patients with nilotinib suggests they have some idea...
- ceejayoz 11y ago> That they started a trial on Parkinson's patients with nilotinib suggests they have some idea... Not when they made the drug, they didn't.
- ceejayoz 11y agoI can't edit this, but I'm curious about why the downvotes. The trial on Parkinson's patients was probably the result of unexpected improvements in Parkinson's patients who received it for cancer treatments. The drug wasn't developed with this use in mind.