That's no longer entirely true, with the advent of (for example) cheap and rapid gene sequencing, or protein screening. We're not all that far from a couple of simple blood tests simultaneo… (View Post)

It's really not; but it ought to be. The key is to put the sort of research effort into it that was done in previous decades for breast cancer. (View Post)

It doesn't. But the real disparity is what has been spent on research over the last couple if decades. Everything follows from that. (View Post)

Denning was responsible for a few perverse decisions of his own, as I recall. (View Post)

Read Master of the Senate by Robert Caro. Perhaps the ultimate political biography. It will get you up to speed. And no political geek can really call themselves such without reading at least one Car… (View Post)