> It is amazing how many people on HN really hate science. Counterpoint: medical science is insanely difficult and expensive, due to individual variations in

> It is amazing how many people on HN really hate science. Counterpoint: medical science is insanely difficult and expensive, due to individual variations in genetics and lifestyle, and the huge number of variables that it is effectively impossible to completely control for. This leads to research that is tainted by the incentives of those agents that afford the expense, and results that tend to be correlation more often than causation. That's not to say that we should ignore the science we do have; rather, we shouldn't fall into the trap of assuming we can model biology as precisely as astrophysics. Sometimes the illusion of knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.