It might be wrong, but it also might be right. >any significant breakthrough in biology tends to make vast swaths of medical science irrelevant and in a sense

It might be wrong, but it also might be right. >any significant breakthrough in biology tends to make vast swaths of medical science irrelevant and in a sense a waste of money But most research in pure biology is irrelevant. So you're effectively mistaking a type II error for a type I error in your argument.