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,,That really doesn’t help with my faith in medicine'' Better knowledge of anatomy doesn't help medecine. Better knowledge of aging process and immunology is m
by xiphias2 5y ago
,,That really doesn’t help with my faith in medicine''
Better knowledge of anatomy doesn't help medecine. Better knowledge of aging process and immunology is much more important for increasing human lifespan and decreasing human suffering, and the last 10 years gave us amazing improvements in the knowledge part.
- nefitty 5y agoThat's a dismissive attitude of other people's suffering. I have never had debilitating migraines, but I feel compassion for people who experience them. I value any innovation that would alleviate their suffering, just as I hope others would feel about problems I have.
- xiphias2 5y agoResearch works by prioritizing it to places where people expect a return. My friend has a PhD in cancer research because this way she takes part in saving human lives with the highest probability/impact. She could of course go to study anatomy more instead, but as it has an opportunity cost of more people dying of cancer. Not having faith in medicine, which had many breakthroughs in the past few years just because it doesn't prioritize low impact research is what I would call dismissive.