Books

Tyranny of the Gene was phenomenal! My first 5🌟 of 24! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622502/tyranny-of-the-gene-by-james-tabery/

Looks at how genetic research has eclipsed environmental 

Ie: billions sunk into failed attempts to find diabetes and asthma genes, nothing addressing bad food or pollution

The Farcaster formerly known as Kchamp. Books, beats, bodybuilding, bright ideas and beautiful things.

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He guest lectured a class I took last year. It was kinda funny, he got a lot of pushback. Lots of genetic counseling/PhD students in the class were a little upset by his arguments & felt that altho precision med has so far failed to live up to the hype, it might actually be on the cusp of realizing its full potential.

I do think they might actually be right this time (eg CAR-T therapies show real promise), but yeah clearly we need both. 

It's hard for me to see how funding to study env/social determinants of health will match funding for biomedical research though since pharma cant profit unless there's a drug at the end of the day

They have been saying that for 20yr so that pushback doesn’t do much for me lol

For whatever reason we have decided to make this an ‘either/or’ not a ‘both’. Stupid. 

To me it seems obvious the pendulum has swung too far towards “precision med” and we are behind on the rest of it