> a "space race" which makes a grand project of developing substantive improvements to medical care and quality of life.
How about a "space race" to destroy destructive nonsense like homeopathy, anti-vaccine idiocy, reiki, and all of the other non-scientific crap people try to use instead of real medicine.
Getting rid of quackademic medicine would be a good first step.
How about a "space race" to destroy destructive nonsense like homeopathy, anti-vaccine idiocy, reiki, and all of the other non-scientific crap people try to use instead of real medicine.
Getting rid of quackademic medicine would be a good first step.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackademic_medicine
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/quackademic-me...