---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote : salyavin, you wrote that the wonder of science is that it's fallible and improving all the time. I agree simply because I think that's true of everything and everyone on our planet. AND, I think science has become corrupt and almost irrelevant, the latter mainly because it moves so slowly. In these days of ever speedy change, the systems that survive are the ones that can provide solutions quickly. As an example, I point to the ebola crisis. People are dying while science is bogged down, not only in its own machinations, but in the rusty gears of politics and economics.
But two American doctors were just cured and released from hospital after being given the experimental Ebola drug that is, unfortunately scarce. So I guess they are desperate enough to try even the unproven, untested drugs on those who will die if not treated in some way. So maybe this will hasten things up. Personally, if I had an exotic or very deadly disease I'd be happy to be a guinea pig for some untried treatment or one in the early stages of development.
