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I guess today is much easier to find new noteworthy, publishable facts in medicine than physics. New diseases are discovered every year, and old diseases are po
by Qem 5y ago
I guess today is much easier to find new noteworthy, publishable facts in medicine than physics. New diseases are discovered every year, and old diseases are poorly understood (e.g Alzheimer disease), and the treatments for many of them are still sub-optimal, or even inexistent. Every patient is different, individual cases are research-worth. We only got antibiotics in the 1940s. On the other hand, most big breakthroughs of physics happened between the 17th century and the first decades of the 20th century. After the general case is cracked in physics, individual cases have very little publishing value.
- lucb1e 5y ago> much easier to find new noteworthy, publishable facts in medicine than physics Plus I would imagine that everyone wants their illness looked into, thus that's where funding tends to go. I care much less for physicists to figure out what dark matter is than how to treat health problem X that bothers me daily. (Just an example. In my particular case I'm healthy and would actually be quite excited about dark matter findings compared to any individual illness solution... but still.) This comment would be worth a lot more with some stats about funding going towards the different fields, though. Not sure where to find that.