f283000 said:
I'm sure we could but you think the powers that be will ever allow that? it's kinda like a cure for cancer. Cancer is big business so don't ever expect a cure but rather expect more and more medicine to where it's manageable and they can still make money off you.
If we could all just release our minds schools would be irrelevant.
Off topic, but I feel that I have to chime on this that there's more forces at work to why we haven't cured cancer yet. Some media and started to noticed this with a big article noticing how the rate of finding new drugs have tricked while the rate of discoveries of proteins that can be inhibited or causes cancer have exploded. We other words, in the past 30 years, we learned a ****-ton of how it is caused, but developed almost nothing in prevention or cures. A big reason that is not some conspiracy is how our incentives have developed. Finding causes is much less risky than finding cures.
For the private sector, the result is obvious that they aren't too jumpy on putting money on an all-or-nothing medicine that will either cure or fail (and, of course, the question if they really want to find a cure).
Then there's academia, which have it own perverse incentive issues. When a young researcher who dreams of becoming a tenured professor, the usually path is having a lot of publications, which is done by doing a lot of research with some kind of meaningful results. Also people in charge of funding are incredibly risk averse and highly prefer to take experiments where there's a high chance of useful results. So what type of experiment is most likely to get funded? An incremental experiment that won't find a cure but have a good of finding another interesting protein? Or some research where there's a high chance of failure, but it's success means pay dirt?
So add that academia have been hiring private sector to gain their "efficiency." Even people getting tenure are still pushing to do safer experiments that is likely to get funding. Some government funding cuts... And you get what you have today, a field where we still use the same drugs we discovered in the 70's for chemo.
This is not to say we're completely screwed, but there's a hard road ahead in using our knowledge to find cures.