David Fajgenbaum

I think you have to acknowledge how myopic the field of medicine is.

You are an uncommon.

not in the synthesizing generalist business.

You're in the specializing business.

And generalizing and synthesizing is so hard.

This is why people were freaked out, you know, that Homeland Security was tapping everyone's phones.

And so it's like, it's a fucking joke.

Nothing can synthesize all this information.

You can gather information all you want, but to actually find patterns within information is so time consuming and nearly impossible for a human to do.

You're not going to launch a new drug.

Hopefully you're going to pick up another few patients, but it's going to be a few.

So the pharma company is not incentivized to figure this out.

That's exactly right.

No, not at all.

It's like recycling old drugs.

We like inventions and breakthroughs.

We don't like hearing the fucking answer was sitting next to us the whole time.

Like it's already here.

Yeah, yeah, of course.

It's just our nature is to want the breakthrough and the next thing and the next clinical trial and not, hey, we already had it.