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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 10 February 2014 07:01:51PM 0 points [-]

I don't see the medical case as much different from other science. And it is not clearcut either. The problems being

  • corporations wanting/needing to reap gains

  • unhelpful incentive structures

  • missing meta science (efficiently driving or aggregating research) and missing base level expertise

  • and of course politics