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I can always agree with "I wish there was more research" absent constraints and dependencies. But your post really seems to be saying that not nearly enough of
by your-nanny 8y ago
I can always agree with "I wish there was more research" absent constraints and dependencies. But your post really seems to be saying that not nearly enough of the effort is being spent in this direction, and I'm wondering on what basis you think this? Because it is not true in my experience of dealing with depression researchers.
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- perl4ever 8y agoI donated to a research foundation, and I believe it was mainly spent on pointless experiments with rats. At the time, I didn't have a strong preference for what to fund, so I went with what was suggested to me. But at this point, I look back and see the most important thing they ever funded was some of the early development of optogenetics. So I'm coming to believe that basic tools and measurement should get most of the available funding. I think there's a lot of research directed at trying things at random that is just wasted. Any IT geek surely knows the difference between trying to debug something by flailing around with random theories and really buckling down and analyzing it. The latter seems slower, but it's the only way you make progress at all.
- your-nanny 8y agoIn other words, with only a casual acquaintence with the field and literature. Got it.