I’ll propose that we actually kind of know a lot of things about many (not all) diseases, we really just need an objective look at how to address them. The majority of scientists today are mostly quite narrow minded in terms of scientific thinking, every one of them wants to use the method that they are experts at to solve the problem. When the Manhattan project was deployed all the top physicists came and tackled the problem that needed to be solved with the most suitable methods, but there’s been “cancers Manhattan project” or “moonshot” initiatives in biology numerous times and they all fail because the scientists incharge invariably push their own agendas in these.

Take Janelia farms for example- without reading their editorialised website if you try to gander what the hell this institution is trying to do, from just the papers they publish, you would fail miserably. Not saying that institution sucks, well I suppose I am saying that, but only insofar because all of academia seems to suck in the same way.

> Janelia farms

I’m pretty sure they do basic science for medicine, with many of the same goals as the NIH.