Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m...
by mcnamaratw on Sunday January 30, 2022 @08:54PM
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Are you saying that medicine hasn’t advanced much in the last 50 years?
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Re:Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific m...
by TimTheTinker on Sunday January 30, 2022 @10:35PM
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No, just that the rate of change is much lower than that of tech. We haven't had any penicillin-level breakthroughs recently.
Admittedly, part of the reason for that is that what's left in medicine is the "long tail" of as-of-yet relatively neglected conditions.