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It's amazing how many people think linearly and are unable to zoom out and look at the system as a whole.
by sjaak 5y ago
It's amazing how many people think linearly and are unable to zoom out and look at the system as a whole.
- nradov 5y agoThis is a symptom of the reductionist trend in much of modern medicine which focuses primarily on treating specific conditions with individual small-molecule drugs. That's not a bad approach necessarily; it makes the experiments easy and has produced excellent results in many areas. But it seems to be running out of steam with most of the low-hanging fruit already picked. Return on drug development costs is trending lower. In order to make major new advances we'll need to go back and develop a better theoretical understanding of how all the moving pieces fit together through basic research.