The hubris behind such claims by @microsoft never ceases to amaze and annoy me. 2/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2016/09/23/microsoft-vows-to-solve-cancer-in-a-decade-hubris-ensues/ …
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@microsoft is not alone either. There's@IBM and@IBMWatson making similar claims. How well is that turning out so far? 3/https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/ibm-watson-versus-cancer-hype-meets-reality/ …Show this thread -
It reminds me of how often physicists think they've had a major insight that thousands of cancer researchers over the last century have never thought of before, because, you know, they're physicists. 4/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/07/18/a-physicist-clueless-about-cancer-lectures-cancer-biologists-on-cancer/ …
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I'm all for interdisciplinary studies to elucidate mechanisms of carcinogenesis and cancer progression that include physics and other basic sciences not normally part of cancer research, but, really, we've got to recognize their limitations. 5/https://youtu.be/_VrFV5r8cs0
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Contrary to how they are portrayed by tech moguls, physicists, and the like, physics and technology are not likely to come up with new insights that lead to cures for cancers unless they are rooted in basic biology. 6/6
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You have to wonder what they think - the - problem of cancer is.
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