We didn't even know what "junk DNA" did until like 25 years ago. We've discovered a couple new body parts in the last 50 years. We don't have any real understanding of how basic, foundational parts of medicine work - things like anesthesia and antidepressants and even pain differences between men and women. Tests are regularly performed on highly homogenous groups, or even tested on groups completely different from the target audience. The US allows us to advertise medicines on TV, and this gets people thinking they have some vague understanding of medicine - which they do not. I mean, maybe the unreasonably smart audience of this site may, but for the extreme majority of Americans, they do not.
I think our massive advancement in the computer industry has confused people into thinking other industries which use computers are also advanced, but this is not the case. Pharmacology is an extremely immature field.
Edit: I think the only field more immature than this would be psychology? And I don't think many are silly enough to trust a field who still worships a dude that believed every thought you had was somehow actually about sex, and has made zero advancements beyond borrowing meditation and a few other ideas from other cultures.
Jesus I can't tell if this comment is a joke or peak techbro arrogance.
I think your mind would break if you tried to learn what goes into modern drug design, like quantum chemistry.
Statistical analysis was basically invented to solve problems in psychology and biology, like measuring intelligence and understanding genetic inheritance.
Pretty much all the advancement in the computer industry is on the hardware side. Software engineering is the most immature field of them all.
Oh for sure - I didn't really consider software development because I barely consider it a practice - it literally slipped my mind. I refuse to call it software "engineering" because there's not a single real engineer in the field lol.
edit: I should clarify that I did indeed only mean computer hardware - that shit is incredible, and built by actual engineers. Imagine how incredible software could be if we had real engineers there, too.
I think our massive advancement in the computer industry has confused people into thinking other industries which use computers are also advanced, but this is not the case. Pharmacology is an extremely immature field.
Edit: I think the only field more immature than this would be psychology? And I don't think many are silly enough to trust a field who still worships a dude that believed every thought you had was somehow actually about sex, and has made zero advancements beyond borrowing meditation and a few other ideas from other cultures.