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I don't understand the vitriol. They may, or may not, reach their goal, but it's certainly worth trying.

Even if they don't cure all diseases - if they advance our understanding of some of them, or help cure some, then humanity will be advanced by that much more.



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Even though the genome hasn't unleashed a flood of new cures, it's still a great thing that we're getting excited over each new potential avenue of fighting disease. That way, one day we'll get enough knowledge together to make medicine as effective as we would like.

A few false starts along the way is fine as long as we keep going.


imo, progress usually can't be made without mistakes. There may be many 'coming soon' cures, but a lot will fail, some will cure other things than original disease, some will advance understanding of the disease and gradually, progress is made from different directions

You don't think solving every disease is a significant upside?

That remains to be seen. People hope it will lead to new treatments for diseases of all kinds. Whether or not that materializes is big question mark.

I'm glad they're putting money into medical research, but I kinda roll my eyes when people make big claims about curing X, especially when X is something incredibly broad like "cancer" or in this case, "all diseases." AI/ML has barely scratched the surface of its potential in medicine, however, I find it naive to think that you can throw AI/ML at any random disease and always get a cure. Even after a century. Will we have a cure for trisomy 21? For antisocial personality disorder? For obesity and addiction? These things are far more complicated than just creating the right drug.

But as much as I'm rolling my eyes at their blanket statement, the spirit of "yes we can!" does way more for science and progress than naysay of critics.


Not all diseases are bad enough to justify enormous pricetags for a cure.

$3bn/day isn't a bad estimate to cure all diseases.

You’re sort of taking a tangent on what I was saying. It’s not really relevant to my point.

Yes, the world is a much better place. Your article summarized it nicely:

“Rising prosperity, rising education and the spread of health care around the globe are the major drivers of this progress.”

My point is that more research compounded over decades would help us cure more people sooner.

I didn’t say we can cure everyone but perhaps we can make it extremely rare.


Yes I did probably word it wrong, of course to cure these diseases is awesome, but we kind of know what the potential is there, I am more interested in what other potentials, apart from diseases, are there

Sure, I'm just making the point that sometimes when you look at something like that and think it can be improved, it's worth considering that the cure may end up being worse than the disease.

If this doesn't turn out to be overblown sensationalism, then the team behind this (actual!) cure probably deserves a Nobel for their efforts and results.

And we'll cure them too.

The goal of gene therapies isn't to kill their patients but it wouldn't surprise me if introducing a lesser disease in exchange for curing a serious disease would be considered an acceptable outcome even if it means that people who have not been seriously ill will now suffer from the lesser disease more frequently.

We'll cure those too.

Sure, but after how many people get sick? Seems like a very dismissive comment.


I'm out of the loop here: why would any political faction not want an alleged cure to work? What's the goal here?

Their diagnosis was okay, it's the proposed cure people have a problem with.

If they actually go through the proper channels and test their cures then I'll gladly accept them. Until that they are pretty much just a pseudoscience.

I'm posing the question: Will the cure be worse than the disease?

They won't just roll over and say "oh well".


Glad that we might eventually get rid of diseases from starting, but when it comes to a cure, research is unbalanced towards treating instead, because it makes more money.
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