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Victor Perton's avatar

Good to read, "Optimism in Modern Biomedicine"

The world needs ever more optimistic headlines.

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"The new trial offers unprecedented hope. Patients who received treatment showed a 75 percent slowing of disease progression. During the treatment process, surgeons spend 12 to 18 hours guiding a catheter deep into the brain. There, they infuse a harmless virus that has been redesigned to carry a special DNA sequence. Once inside neurons, the virus prompts cells to manufacture microRNA molecules that silence the faulty genetic instructions. This reduces levels of the toxic huntingtin protein, thus preserving brain cells and function.

This breakthrough underscores the transformative potential of genetic medicine: What once seemed impossible is now becoming reality."

"biomedical research is not merely producing incremental change but delivering measurable progress toward earlier, more precise diagnoses and better-targeted therapies. The trajectory of human health is rising, and the horizon of possibility continues to widen. Science is no longer merely about imagining a better future: It is actively building it, and we are already living healthier and longer than ever before.".

BRILLIANT ! THIS IS SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY and HUMAN INGENUITY at it's VERY BEST !

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NOW.....just imagine if you will that "science" had NOT been RAILROADED into the blind-canyon

of "Catastrophic Climate Change" and all that WASTED MONEY [ spent on "propaganda" and

the futile , unnecessary and frankly , stupid attempt to rewrite history , reality and natural climate cycles ] had instead been spent on USEFUL SCIENCE like these biomedical discoveries and breakthroughs , we may well have advanced medical science to a point where illness and

disability became simply a thing of the past !

The corruption of "science" by politicians and academics for their own malevolent and reprehensible purposes will weigh heavily on all the institutions that ALLOWED THEMSELVES

TO BE SO EASILY CORRUPTED and I sincerely hope that future generations will punish them and extract their "pound of flesh" from every corrupt individual !

Because NOT ONLY have they set-back the proper advance of SCIENCE , they have forever TARNISHED IT'S GOOD NAME and caused confusion and ignorance and division to flourish !

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It gives me great hope to see that , DESPITE all the drawbacks , biomedical science has continued to advance and , given their rightful place , the other sciences will also flourish in parallel.

Even the nefarious and culpable "Bill Gates" is beginning to have second thoughts !!!

The billionaire has changed his tune on the ‘climate crisis’ and says it “will not lead to humanity’s demise”.[ He's evidently made-as-much-money as he can from the 'crisis he helped to create' !! ]

PERHAPS it is now TIME to really embrace the Will Shackel [ 'Nuclear for Australia' ] and the incredible Bjorn Lomborg ideas at last ! Lomborg's central argument is that focusing solely on climate change policies, especially those that disproportionately burden the world's poor, is an inefficient and ineffective way to address global challenges. He advocates for a more balanced approach that prioritizes a "smart" approach to climate change through technological innovation and invests in a wide range of other policies that offer a higher return on investment for human well-being. [ although I strongly disagree with any suggestion of carbon taxes !!! ].

I see no future role for "St Greta of Climate Catastophism" , "Gaza flotilla" and other fraudulent

attempts at self-aggrandisement when there are lots of actually honest and decent people available to "light the way" into a better future !

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Awilson's avatar

We live in an age of miracles.

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