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I have both feet in the game, being a clinical researcher. So, cynic but not casual.

• carapace 8y ago
  "Politicized agenda-propelled random search" Lol! I think you and arkades both have it right. It's a "politicized agenda-propelled random search" on a large enough scale and over a rich enough search space that it "has made impressive strides" despite its flaws and inefficiencies. I have a friend who works as a Healer. People come to him and pay him good money and he gets results. He doesn't advertise, he gets referrals by word-of-mouth alone. My point is he gets results.[1] He can do things that are totally off the map of conventional medicine. However, he's uninterested in science and scientists (in general) are uninterested in him. "It's something that moves generationally" indeed, if paradigm shifts really require the dying out of the old guard. If we think of inefficiencies in the search due to e.g. politics and superstition as a kind of malady, then it seems we are witnessing a phase of "Physician heal thyself", what with the advent of mass medical monitoring and big data correlation, eh? [1] Have you heard the joke, "If alternative medicine works it's just called medicine."? Well, yes and no. Some things that work are too far outside the belief structures and will be ignored or ridiculed.