Which may be acceptable if we read science to equate to biochemisty.

But the author said "Science is failing us" not "Biochemistry".

And I still disagree, there is still tons of new amazing and effective stuff being churned out. If you want to draw a line in the sand and try not taking and new medicines invented after today and see how you do fine, but I'm going to keep up because I still think there is a lot that can be done and we've barely started