Re:A prospective Alzheimer’s trial reports
by vikramkr on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:58PM
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Unfortunately, even though these amyloid drugs keep on failing, the "try something else" part of the "if you fail, then you've learned something and can try something else" equation doesn't seem to really register with the industry for whatever reason. We keep pouring money into amyloid trials when it's pretty clear that there's still a lot of basic research to be done to find new leads to pursue.
Try it now, if it doesn't work, now you know something valuable and you can try something else.
As someone who suffers from a lot of analysis paralysis, distraction ... sometimes I find just making myself keep typing and trying things in order to fail quickly and learn from it leads to much faster / sooner successes rather than burying myself up in all the minuta and every aspect of something and... not doing it.
There was an old TV show called Connections where they tracked various inventions and progress over history, and IIRC it is telling that almost every positive step they note involve someone failing to do something else they were trying, but still finding out something valuable that adds up to the next step for something else and so on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)