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How do you cure cancer? Well, cancer is a complex disease, made of cells which are nominally "yours" but which are actively trying to proliferate as much as pos
by msla 5y ago
How do you cure cancer? Well, cancer is a complex disease, made of cells which are nominally "yours" but which are actively trying to proliferate as much as possible, causing knock-on effects...
Or, in the words of this article, "BULLSHIT! Just kill the cancer cells while leaving the healthy cells alive! Simple! Anything beyond that is artificial complexity! DA-EPOCH-R? DAE overcomplicated BuLLshiT! I know best!"
The kind of over-simplification this article promotes leads directly to outcomes like Steve Jobs fruit-curing himself into an early grave because he thought he'd outsmarted a kind of cancer that would have been pretty damn treatable had he had an ounce of humility.
- gpderetta 5y agoevery problem has a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong.
- mdp2021 5y agoSome people call them "silver bullets": appealing illusions that problems may be more manageable than they are. Unfortunately, many silver bullets per problem can be formulated. They are considered one of the nourishing of populism. You want a metal-to-be-defined bullet against them? Education. So one gets used to meet problems that look simple but reveal their difficulty once you tackle them.
- drooby 5y agoHuh? The author specifically says organic chemistry is actually complex.