>Yes, but to know "why" (I'd much rather say "how") current drugs work you don't need to know "why" people get certain illnesses - that's my issue with the arti

>Yes, but to know "why" (I'd much rather say "how") current drugs work you don't need to know "why" people get certain illnesses - that's my issue with the article. Well, that's true. But I think he makes a reasonably compelling argument that we don't in fact know why the current generation of drugs works.