Guy <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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The real issue is our ability to have the people to do the research. It takes about 20 years of
training to develop a person to do the job.
Throwing money at anything will never solve the problem. The issue is to pick those that have the
native ability to accept the training and be capable of making a positive contribution. Then the
money will do some good .
Throwing money never does any good - but the funding has to be there to be used in the right way.
Over the long term, funding only goes to medical projects that have widespread popular support, and
that support is a result of education and advocacy. Look at AIDS and cancer funding versus the
activism for both those causes.
Quoted message said:Our problems will not be solved in print or TV. PR people have a role but they seem to get off on
tangents. Much of the present research has been overstated greatly. It is in the early stages and
the accumulation of data is just starting.
We need careful funding that is well designed on a multiple decade effort. We have a long way to
go. More efforts going into bomb making and politics now.
Broadly agreed. There are always too many bombs - a major disease can be cured for the cost of a
couple of stealth bombers.
Quoted message said:I doubt if much will come from companies that buy the rights to a drug and develops it for market.
Real research is not a quarterly effort. It is not a financial report. We need long term funding
to maintain the longer term efforts. Then some of you will live to see some results.
Well, I agree with you that drugs are not the future (even if I disagree with your stance on
corporations - business and profit are absolutely essential to turning research into medicine, at
least until someone invents the selfless human being). Regenerative medicine is the future, from
which cures will come for the conditions that could never be cured by drugs. That mouse cure for
diabetes is a stem cell and regenerative medicine affair - you'll note that to cure a mouse of
diabetes took considerably less than a decade to go from 'hey, there are these things called stem
cells' to 'mouse cured of diabetes.'
So I think your timescale is a bit off for the science side of things. However, getting FDA approval
for any procedure that works now in mice or in early human trials could easily take a decade and the
better part of a billion dollars...which is why medical science can seem so slow even at a time when
the pace of actual research is blisteringly fast.
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