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“Remission in Every Patient”
2020 was a total bust; ditto 2021. 2022 isn’t shaping up much better; 2023 might be worse. Could a promising potential cancer cure save the 2020s?
What goes up, must come down. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Karma; what goes around, comes around; three-fold, five-fold, or ten-fold. No good deed goes unpunished. To everything there is a time and a season under heaven, turn, turn, turn. There is nothing new under the sun.
Science, philosophers, and major religions don’t agree about much of anything; almost nothing, actually. Even within each of those realms, there is so much disagreement and dissension over nuances, empirical truths and existential threats, it would take an advanced computer algorithm and probably AI a decade to sort it all out.
Even then, AI might not be able to help. A program that cannot produce realistic cat videos has little hope of mapping the vagaries of human esoteric knowledge.
When science, faith, and philosophy do all arrive at the same universal truth together, it usually transcends any puny human constructs like language, culture and geography.
If for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction- as science, major religions and the great philosophers of history tell us there is- the world deserves an enormous, cosmic-level win…