>People think science is magic too often.

you can say that again.

peoples’ expectations of science and medicine are so wild. and the more uninformed, the more they expect. when you’re an actual scientist you realize it’s a mix of working banging your head against the wall for the most tiny incremental gain in knowledge (this is the vast majority of science) + the rare landmark finding, which usually gets milked for its every potential application across all fields of science.

but people really sit back and think scientists could just do whatever they wanted if they felt like it (and therefore the reason e.g. aids has no cure is because they don’t care enough, as opposed to the fact that it’s actually not possible).