Saying "a cure for cancer" is not analogous to "a cure for polio" it's analogous to "a cure for all viral infection"https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/839665369786777604 …
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His list of Four Big Killers are big killers bc they're fundamental things that go wrong with the body that don't have singular causes
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And we have made tremendous strides in treating those conditions - chemo is a big deal, bypass surgery is a big deal, insulin is a big deal
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We just don't have a magic bullet one-time pull that makes the condition vanish and costs five bucks to make
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We have a "magic bullet" (Gleevec) for one very specific type of cancer, and it's extremely expensive.
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