Precision Medicine — Too Much Precision , Not Enough Medicine ?

he problem is that human biology and disease are far too complex to ever be described with total precision. The same is true for that most precise of the sciences, physics. I doubt that we will ever completely understand the real world. Only God is supposed to be able to do that. Human knowledge is fractal: the more you know about any subject, the more questions arise. That’s why the best scientists are humble and open-minded, eager to consider new ideas from colleagues. Biomedical science has imitated physics and become Big Science, with a few ambitious pediatric geneticists and Mendelian linkage analysts telling everybody else what to do. No wonder Precision Medicine has been off on the wrong foot since the 1980s.