Former Intel CEO Rips Medical Research 484
Himuanam writes "Former Intel CEO Grove rips on the medical research community, contrasting their lack of progress with the tech industry's juggernaut of breakthroughs over the past half-century or so. 'On Sunday afternoon, Grove is unleashing a scathing critique of the nation's biomedical establishment. In a speech at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven't had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways.'"
If Intel did medical research... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Breakthroughs? (Score:2, Funny)
Next up... Car industry. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Breakthroughs? (Score:5, Funny)
I agree with you 100.000000000137468%
Re:Apples with oranges (Score:4, Funny)
If pharma advanced like processors:
-Time for a cold/allergy medicines to kick in would halve every 18 months.
-Medicines would be cheap, but you'd have to buy them in five-year supplies at a time.
-No one would be able to figure out what Mac molecules look like.
-Pill would do anything you wanted, except for the 50% of the time that you vomit them.
And if computers had to follow pharma regs:
-Chipmakers would have to run extensive tests to ensure they were Turing complete.
-Chips would be pulled off the market if they ran into any unpredicted infinite loops.
-Every computer would come with a book full of warnings including such gems as "Not intended for use underwater."
-Computer commercials would occasionally just mention the product in a positive light with no real information about functionality. (Oh wait, they already do that
Dilbert still has the answer (Score:5, Funny)
(misquoting shamelessly from memory)
PHB: I figure that anything I don't understand can't be that hard. "Reengineer our world-wide network topology: 30 minutes."
Re:Breakthroughs? (Score:2, Funny)
Hitler.
Re:Breakthroughs? (Score:3, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug [wikipedia.org]
Re:Basic Research (Score:1, Funny)
Re:You're still talking out of your @$$ (Score:3, Funny)
Why do we need a million different calculator programs? Isn't one, or even a dozen good enough to cover all cases? Reversing the analogy, how many penis pills do we need? If it's so easy to make them, why can't people work on the hard stuff, then if an emergency need arises for penis pills they can whip out (pun intended) a new penis pill?