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>We've seen this before in science, with antibiotics. A few major, early wins followed by the long silence of failure, due to second-order adaptation by cells.
by lsc 13y ago
>We've seen this before in science, with antibiotics. A few major, early wins followed by the long silence of failure, due to second-order adaptation by cells.
I would hardly call antibiotics a "long silence of failure" - they are still pretty goddamn effective, even if they aren't quite as effective as they once were.
- dekhn 13y agoThere are also very few new ones, and nearly all the ones we have remaining are becoming less effective. I'm not denying we got some easy wins with penicillin back in the day, or that people can't be treated with antibiotics. But I've been in the medical industry long enough to maintain a very high level of skepticism when it comes to cancer treatment.