quote:
Originally posted by ShawnZ
quote:
Originally posted by KnightieBoy
We don't even have a cure for the common cold
We can cure the common cold. We just can't cure every single new strain of it as soon as it appears. The common cold mutates into new strains _all the time_, it isn't just one virus.
Surely the human immune system is the cure for the common cold. Treatments for common colds are mostly symptomatic, and colds disappear not long after the emergence of the symptoms, no better than you can do with a "curable" disease.
Not that it really has anything to do with the meaning of life. Science is by definition a set of findings based on assumed premises, and this will indefinitely define its place in the world.
/ 
