A certain Arthur C Clarke quote springs to mind.
I feel like neither of us are really qualified to go that much further in the discussion. The sources I’ve read (reputable peer reviewed, or resumes of) tell me that the cure is hypothetically possible, there are things which link all cancers together, including telomere properties and behaviour. Improving our knowledge of these areas is critical when aiming for the cure. In a perfect world, there would be enough funding for this, and more scientists could choose that path. The fact that it’s not a viable career because of financial concerns has been lamented to me by two researchers, in person. These are my friends and they’re incredibly knowledgeable and I believe them. You don’t have to, but you’ll have to do better than this to convince me they’re wrong.
By your own admission you’re wrong. It’s a theory. There is no proven evidence that suggests it’s possible outside of the fact we have no evidence that suggests it’s impossible. You might be right (some day) but right now you’re wrong, there’s nothing that says you could be correct, and your entire premise is based off the idea that some day in the distance future it could come to fruition which is the case for just about every single thing we’ve imagined but have yet to create. Convincing you that you’re wrong is irrelevant, I’m trying to convince the one person besides us that reads this that you’re wrong.
No! I’ve not admitted I’m wrong. I will be glad to if it turns out to be so.
The whole point of R&D is to discover and develop new things which weren’t possible yesterday. Your argument seems to be that because we don’t know how to do something right now, it’s impossible. There are endless examples of people in history saying some technology we now take for granted was impossible.
A certain Arthur C Clarke quote springs to mind.
I feel like neither of us are really qualified to go that much further in the discussion. The sources I’ve read (reputable peer reviewed, or resumes of) tell me that the cure is hypothetically possible, there are things which link all cancers together, including telomere properties and behaviour. Improving our knowledge of these areas is critical when aiming for the cure. In a perfect world, there would be enough funding for this, and more scientists could choose that path. The fact that it’s not a viable career because of financial concerns has been lamented to me by two researchers, in person. These are my friends and they’re incredibly knowledgeable and I believe them. You don’t have to, but you’ll have to do better than this to convince me they’re wrong.
By your own admission you’re wrong. It’s a theory. There is no proven evidence that suggests it’s possible outside of the fact we have no evidence that suggests it’s impossible. You might be right (some day) but right now you’re wrong, there’s nothing that says you could be correct, and your entire premise is based off the idea that some day in the distance future it could come to fruition which is the case for just about every single thing we’ve imagined but have yet to create. Convincing you that you’re wrong is irrelevant, I’m trying to convince the one person besides us that reads this that you’re wrong.
No! I’ve not admitted I’m wrong. I will be glad to if it turns out to be so.
The whole point of R&D is to discover and develop new things which weren’t possible yesterday. Your argument seems to be that because we don’t know how to do something right now, it’s impossible. There are endless examples of people in history saying some technology we now take for granted was impossible.