Is it really the case that we’ve made no substantial progress on cancer? The current age-adjusted mortality rate is the same as in 1930, and the recent decline only tracks the fall in smoking.https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-cancer-industry-hype-vs-reality/ …
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Gotcha. Wasn’t aware that it was the advocacy groups per se that maintained pressure on specific approaches. Just assumed it was bureaucratic structures, etc. I imagine there are few advocates on the Hill for general advances in experimental infrastructure...
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Right. To be clear, I don’t think it’s *just* the advocacy groups. Study sections, to your point, are also a very pro-status quo force. (If you wanted to deliberately create institutional intertia, you’d design something like that.)
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