A bit blunt way to word it (and you’re going to get a lot of pushback), but overall I agree with the sentiment. The medical field, due to various regulations an

A bit blunt way to word it (and you’re going to get a lot of pushback), but overall I agree with the sentiment. The medical field, due to various regulations and special interests, is quite likely the field of study where humanity is most behind where it could be based on the technology we currently have. I’m a data scientist, and it stuns me the way in which diagnoses are made compared to how they could be made if we had a large worldwide dataset of symptoms and other observations to draw correlations from. Especially with regard to preventative medicine. Not only that, but there are a lot of bad doctors out there. If you go to four different doctors for an even slightly obscure problem, there’s a good chance you will get four different diagnoses. If we applied rigorous statistical tests to the assessments made in the medical industry, I think everyone would be unsettled at how inconsistent and irreproducible everything is (as applied to the medical practice—not necessarily academic medical research).