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Molecular biologist professor at a med school here. This is what people are already doing. This reads as someone who doesn't know the field very well.
by untilHellbanned 9y ago
Molecular biologist professor at a med school here. This is what people are already doing. This reads as someone who doesn't know the field very well.
- aeorgnoieang 9y ago> This is what people are already doing. Is that what everyone is doing? In molecular biology? In medicine more broadly? From the last paragraph: > If some approaches to cancer research are much more likely to work than others, but the scientific community systematically favors the unsuccessful approaches, then the difficulty of curing cancer isn’t just a lack of low-hanging fruit, it’s a strategic problem.
- untilHellbanned 9y ago> the scientific community systematically favors the unsuccessful approaches The scientific community doesn't systematically favor unsuccessful approaches. Again, if the author was in the field they would know that's not true.