The more you learn about these stories, the more you realize that our world is just a giant clusterfuck. We haven't witnessed many revolutionary medical breakthroughs in recent years or even decades. With little resources back then scientists were still able to invent breakthroughs such as vaccines, anesthesia, antibiotics, etc. Consider all the money being dumped into medical research field today, it's disheartening that we haven't been able to achieve anything near the same level. The returns are quickly diminishing.<p>The medical field seems to progress at much slower pace compared to other fields like computer science. Are we facing talents distribution problem? The world certainly didn't have companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, or Facebook back then. Are these tech companies sucking up most talents? It's sad to imagine our brightest people are being utilized to create more online ads rather than help curing the world.