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Love that smart people are starting to tackle health problems. This is a huge global issue in need of significant innovation.

• joebananas 16y ago
  You post is dumb as hell.
  • fredoliveira 16y ago
    You're exactly the kind of guy I wish was unable to create an account here. Why is the post dumb? If not health, what would be the most hard pressing problem our species has? And if you can answer that question, why are you not trying to solve it and are being a troll on the internet instead? I know this post itself reads like a flame, but honestly, I worry whenever I see people whose main purpose here is to dampen the ideas (or opinions) of others.
    • lkrubner 16y ago
      I'm just guessing but couldn't "dumb as hell" be a reference to this: "Love that smart people are starting to tackle health problems" Smart people have been working on health problems for several centuries. Severutus worked out the circulatory system in the 1500s, Lister and Pasteur contributed to the germ theory of illness in the 1800s. Sir Alexander Fleming developed the basic idea of penicillin in the 1920s. Smart people have been working on health issues for a very long time.
      • bad_user 16y ago
        Don't forget the discovery of morphine by Friedrich Sertürner in 1804 :-)
      • itg 16y ago
        I think he means it in a different way. Nobody is saying that the work of medical researchers and doctors is unimportant or they aren't smart. However figuring out new ways to connect the population and make them more aware of their health is exciting and with the low barriers to entry with all the technology we have now, it will allow many more people to participate in this field.
      • randallsquared 16y ago
        I had the same startled reaction to ariels post that joebananas apparently did. The idea that smart people are just now starting to look at health is just... astonishing. Fortunately, joebananas took the karma hit to show us all that HN doesn't think doctors or scientists are "smart people". :/