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...argues that the current activism is not supported by the data??citing a small survey reporting that 80 percent of patients do not care if their physicians have pharmaceutical companies ties—and that maligning industry investment will only inhibit scientific progress...
...most important knowledge for the soul—may have had greater priority in previous societies. Yet the innovation of our age has been to discredit such matters as necessarily spurious and speculative and thus not the subject of real intellectual activity. What matters to moderns is the data??and in its slavish devotion to the data, science gained its intellectual pre-eminence...
Catherine M. DesRoches, of the Institute for Health Policy at Mass. General, said that when the Bush Administration first announced its goal to digitize medical records by 2014, there was no “baseline data?? on current levels of digitized records...
...Sanes says. “Imagine slicing it into slices one millimeter thick. With each slice you can see a little shred of each part...You need to put them together to figure out the whole wiring diagram.”But the simple concept requires massive volumes of data??far beyond the capacity of current technologies. According to Sanes, mapping a human brain would demand enough storage space to host all the photos on Facebook millions of times over—now a wildly unrealistic demand.“Everything” will have to advance before...
...Unlike most lengthy grant applications, applicants submitted just a two-page proposal and needed no preliminary data??the focus was on the idea, not on the results, according to Andrew C. Serazin, an official at the Gates Foundation...