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Yeah the gut microbiome is the next big thing for sure. It should be easy to study. Food logs, mood logs, medication logs, next generation sequencing and mayb

• __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
  As if omics research isn't hard enough, there's a confounding layer of privacy and incentive problems here. From a science angle it makes more sense to just collect this data from everybody all the time and let the studies be post hoc explorations of that giant dataset. But how do you get people to cooperate when they have reason to believe that the data will be used against them? Either we accept the diminished value of isolated study-at-a-time datasets (as we're doing now), we figure out how to do this kind of research through a layer of homeomorphic encryption which the layman trusts (a tall order), or we wait for an era with more trustworthy institutions (potentially a long time). For this reason, I think it'll be like fusion power: the perpetual "next big thing".
  • Pilottwave 4y ago
    give out equity to the study participants. I'll hand over data of you give me some equity on future ideas built on that data. l Like artists getting payed royalties.
• John23832 4y ago
  > Yeah the gut microbiome is the next big thing for sure. It should be easy to study. It won't be. We aren't able to culture most gut bacteria. Most die immediately in oxygen. The best we can do at the moment is correlation.