[extropy-chat] Effectiveness of Medicine

[Robin Hanson]

At 11:21 AM 9/25/2005, Morris Johnson wrote:
>But I am also saying that better documentation of health could track 
>these individual
>nutrigenomic cases and with system-wide data mining could detect consequences
>by pulling needles from the haystack.

Yes, collecting data on all the people out there, on what they do and 
how healthy they become, would allow a greatly increased 
understanding.  But the fact that we ignore the data we already have 
because it doesn't fit our preconceptions suggests we might ignore 
this new data as well.


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