Great paper: >"Even if a diagram makes overall sense (Figure 3A), it is usually useless for a quantitative analysis, which limits its predictive or investigati

Great paper: >"Even if a diagram makes overall sense (Figure 3A), it is usually useless for a quantitative analysis, which limits its predictive or investigative value to a very narrow range. The language used by biologists for verbal communications is not better and is not unlike that used by stock market analysts. Both are vague (e.g., “a balance between pro- and antiapoptotic Bcl-2 proteins appears to control the cell viability, and seems to correlate in the long term with the ability to form tumors”) and avoid clear predictions." Exactly! As soon as you start trying to attach numbers to this stuff you realize we haven't figured out much of anything about it, and these "theories" haven't ever really been tested. It is honestly a waste of time to approach the problem like that. Even assuming the info is accurate (yet vague), future generations will have to redo all of it anyway to see what is is really going on. In reality it seems to be both inaccurate and vague...