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> How many people are effectively managing the disease now who would have died 30 years ago? Perhaps you should be less glib out of respect for their lives. I
by tharne 5y ago
> How many people are effectively managing the disease now who would have died 30 years ago? Perhaps you should be less glib out of respect for their lives.
I don't think the parent commenter was being glib. Treatments are great, but a treatment is not the same thing as a cure. Lots folks successfully treat their diabetes, but I'll bet most of them would prefer a cure for diabetes.
- acdha 5y agoNo question, but that doesn’t make science hype just because it didn’t produce a cure by the end of the episode. Just in case it wasn’t clear, I’m explicitly calling out that choice of wording. If they’d said “this is a notoriously hard problem”, I’d agree.