Imagine if the pace of medical research moved at the pace of javascript frameworks.
We would all be fucking immortal. There would probably be some mutants though. But you gotta crack some eggs.
Imagine if the pace of medical research moved at the pace of javascript frameworks.
We would all be fucking immortal. There would probably be some mutants though. But you gotta crack some eggs.
I agree. You give the kids a PCR machine and suddenly everyone is dead.
Better stop now before it's too late.
It depends. A lot of people are already losing their lives through inaction.
This is slightly tangential, Alex Tabarrok's book Launching the Innovation Renaissance is good on the subject of FDA inertia and spending too much time trying to prove efficacy and too little emphasis on experimentation and rapid iteration: http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Marke... .
I'm willing to chance death for perpetual regeneration. No pain, no gain.
We need more open source science!