Here's the problem as I see it. Allopathic medicine has stalled out. Antibiotics were first commercialized in World War II. Ivermectin (discovered in 1975) is pretty great. But just two major breakthroughs in the last 100 years is not very impressive at all. I would add that those are both natural substances.

So my impulse is to want to get smaller (the microscope was very helpful for a while, so maybe we need to move medicine to the atomic level). Or we need to get bigger and identify layers of existence above the material plane. Thus far attempts to get smaller (the Hadron collider) and attempts to get bigger (string theory, spirituality, etc.) have produced nothing usable for medicine.

So allopathic medicine definitely needs to be reinvented. But it's not clear at all to me where that innovative spark will come from.

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10:43 PM
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