Eroom’s Law is scary --- It says that it is becoming harder and harder to develop new drugs. We have essentially exhausted the pipeline of diseases that can be treated with small molecule drugs. It is time to embrace alternative technologies such as genetic engineering. Not every disease can be cured by simply ingesting a pill containing a compound made up of only a few dozen atoms.
What a load of crap. The author has no idea how medical research is actually performed. It's very hard and expensive and data-collection/analysis is a tiny, tiny challenge relative to the complexities and costs of developing novel therapeutics. I'm not saying ResearchKit is a bad thing, but I work in the pharmaceutical industry and this isn't even a blip on anyone's radar. Get real.