The medicine myth | Denis Noble, Nessa Carey, Guy Brown

Is it time to rethink the purpose of medicine?
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"Death is simply a technical problem for which there are technical solutions" claims Yuval Harari. But if the last few years have taught us anything, it is surely that unpredictable disease is unavoidable. And with 2.8 million deaths due to antibiotic resistance each year some claim a new health crisis is only just beginning and that "we are facing a post-antibiotic apocalypse." One thing it seems is clear, death is not a problem medicine appears close to fixing.
Should we conclude that there is an indefinite amount about disease that we do not, and will never, understand? Are we fighting a losing battle, and will antibiotic resistant superbugs and emerging diseases show current successes in health to be a temporary blip in human history? Would we be better to accept doctors are not gods and cannot save us from death or can medicine and technology be combined to make us super human after all?
#Aging #Dementia #DenisNoble
Denis Noble is a world renowned biologist, and Professor Emeritus of Cardiovascular Physiology at the University of Oxford. Famous for developing the first mathematical model of cardiac cells.
Nessa Carey is a ground-breaking British biologist working in the field of molecular biology and biotechnology. She is International Director of the technology transfer organization PraxisUnico and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London.
Guy Brown heads a research group at the University of Cambridge working on cell death in the brain, the heart and in cancer. His previous book The Energy of Life won the Wellcome Trust Prize for popular science.
David Malone is an independent filmmaker, Green Party politician, and author of The Debt Generation.
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  • @TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas
    @TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas Жыл бұрын

    Watch the full debate here! iai.tv/video/the-medicine-myth?KZread&+comment&

  • @CrazyGaming-ig6qq

    @CrazyGaming-ig6qq

    Жыл бұрын

    Warning: it's behind a free trial / paywall.

  • @futures2247
    @futures224711 ай бұрын

    childhood diseases have gone down for a variety of reasons - public health, sanitations, waste disposal, access to food etc

  • @laaaliiiluuu

    @laaaliiiluuu

    10 ай бұрын

    Exactly. Medicine has not much to do with it but overall healthier life circumstances. But Big Pharma has a great marketing team ...

  • @Parasmunt
    @Parasmunt Жыл бұрын

    I find the tone of the last two speakers somewhat disturbing, especially in iight of the controversy about Midazoman and morphine being used to kill people during the Covid crisis. If i was an old person their discussion would make me very.... uncomfortable.

  • @Parasmunt

    @Parasmunt

    Жыл бұрын

    I imagine the first guy is feeling increasingly nervous listening to the other two both of whom think people should not be kept alive too long. I do think Euthanasia is a dangerous field, especially when scientists weave in socio-economic factors and biases about 'Western privelege' and describe the elderly as parasitic. This talk unfortunately had both.

  • @StigFerrari

    @StigFerrari

    11 ай бұрын

    Third leading cause of death in Canada is now euthenasia, displacing medical mistakes

  • @bernardmccole3215
    @bernardmccole321511 ай бұрын

    Huh? "The response to Covid is a scientific miracle" Where's this lady been the last few years.

  • @cioran1754

    @cioran1754

    8 ай бұрын

    Shilling for pharma clearly

  • @StigFerrari
    @StigFerrari11 ай бұрын

    Lifespan increased due to hygiene, clean water and nutrition, rather than ‘vaxines’ or BigPharma, I believe

  • @cioran1754

    @cioran1754

    8 ай бұрын

    Not according to pzifer lady

  • @sharpie6888

    @sharpie6888

    8 ай бұрын

    Vaccine had a huge impact

  • @cioran1754

    @cioran1754

    8 ай бұрын

    @sharpie6888 mortality / morbidity from the majority of infectious diseases had declined rapidly from the late 19th into the middle of the 20th, and they were having a minor / decreasing impact on population health, due to milder forms for one ( see smallpox) , before the various vaccines got introduced, you can look this data up fairly easily if you like, the data does not support a 'huge' impact on health. So a minscule impact at best, and no proper RCTs to show real world efficacy, or comparisons to saline placebo for safety, or monitoring for potential AEs. This is hersey to declare this of course.

  • @flomandru
    @flomandru Жыл бұрын

    The title & the thumbnail doesn’t match the discussion, which is mostly about lifespan and healthspan and chronic diseases (only) of the old people. The speakers (excepting Noble) mostly present the mythology of medicine, including the whiggish position about progress. They touch some sociocultural, economic and philosophical aspects of the big picture, but they are specialists in the small picture (lab). Ask some philosophers, social scientists, historians and others. You have a video with philosopher of medicine Jacob Stegenga (Is Our Trust In Medicine Mistaken? on yt / Medicine's Mistakes on iai).

  • @incoxide
    @incoxide Жыл бұрын

    Nessa Carey is entirely clueless. Amazingly so.

  • @MyMy-tv7fd

    @MyMy-tv7fd

    Жыл бұрын

    dangerously clueless

  • @omodiagbedominicedeoghon4607

    @omodiagbedominicedeoghon4607

    Жыл бұрын

    Either clueless or deceitful and evil.

  • @cioran1754

    @cioran1754

    8 ай бұрын

    Or all three

  • @atwarwithdust
    @atwarwithdust11 ай бұрын

    Certainly there are conditions of pain I would not want to live in until I were 95 years old, but if I could hold only one memory of an experience of music for 1,000 years, without excruciating pain, I would want to do so. And to use the class divide as an argument against that prolongation of human life is kind of obscene. We need to address the fact that 800 million people are living on the edge of starvation *in any event*, and don't you think the underclass would like to live longer too? The universe is billions of years old; the longer we can live, I'd say, the more beautiful.

  • @Soundcloud765
    @Soundcloud76511 ай бұрын

    From May 2011 until July 2014 Nessa Carey was Senior Director in External Research and Development Innovation at Pfizer! Now it's fully understandable where her rethorics comes from. The only and truly A Scientist here is Denis Noble. Others are just tools of the corporate machine with degrees.

  • @terencefield3204

    @terencefield3204

    11 ай бұрын

    Indeed. I also suspect the specific rules of intervention and life length maximisation she would apply to herself would be very different to those she invokes in her dismal middle-ages attitude. And she knows little of economics, and her social polemics are silly.

  • @kessu83

    @kessu83

    8 ай бұрын

    makes sense

  • @thetruthexperiment
    @thetruthexperiment11 ай бұрын

    When did scientists stop thinking? There have always been 80 and 90 year old people. She’s right about fewer child deaths but that’s more because of better child birthing practices. We live beyond our reproductive capacity because the human species is a super organism which must have wise individuals with experience who can properly hand the wold over to the inexperienced. The idea that we’re only supposed live until our uterus falls out is just dumb. Is she saying that woman should die at 40 and men can go on living till 90? Not a very deep think person.

  • @StigFerrari

    @StigFerrari

    11 ай бұрын

    Even the NIH attributed longer health spans to clean water, sanitation, and nutrition, rather than the 70+ jabs they mandate for school kids in the USA.

  • @1984Kojot

    @1984Kojot

    11 ай бұрын

    @@StigFerrari 100% truth after IIWW economy was basically dead in my country many children died because lack of proper heating in the house. Night could be very, very cold to the point that windows were frozen from the inside also grandmother had 7 children so overall care was very poor quality. Noone cared that much for children back in the days.

  • @Pitolek1993

    @Pitolek1993

    10 ай бұрын

    Yah sure, its not like we keep seeing diseases deemed practically erased pop up im first world countries cos some dum dums decided that one guy faking his research is enough not to vaccinate his kids.

  • @readynowforever3676

    @readynowforever3676

    9 ай бұрын

    @@StigFerrari”70 plus jabs”. People like you are so ungrateful for what our species has been and to do at the biochemical level, that you result hyperbolic sophistry.

  • @readynowforever3676

    @readynowforever3676

    9 ай бұрын

    @@1984KojotIs that the best scientific data you can offer ?

  • @notyourbus
    @notyourbus9 ай бұрын

    I like Noble he is genius! 👌

  • @SuperRobinjames
    @SuperRobinjames Жыл бұрын

    I think the lady needs to check her facts regarding the 'miracle of the covid vaccine'.

  • @maddiesilina3833

    @maddiesilina3833

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you a doctor? Check your facts!

  • @SuperRobinjames

    @SuperRobinjames

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maddiesilina3833 only doctor's can talk with authority? Lol

  • @maddiesilina3833

    @maddiesilina3833

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SuperRobinjames about health yes! If you are not a doctor you just have a opinion about vaccines, but no understanding. That’s the difference between people who are doctors and people who are not.

  • @SuperRobinjames

    @SuperRobinjames

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maddiesilina3833 I think you will find that people.without a medical degree are perfectly capable of study,, your appeal to authority carries no weight.

  • @maddiesilina3833

    @maddiesilina3833

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SuperRobinjames I agree that people are able to study. But there is a difference between a student, a doctor and a person with an opinion about medicine.

  • @eastbrecht
    @eastbrecht9 ай бұрын

    Praising the wonders of the jabs. How am I not surprised?

  • @LeoPlaw
    @LeoPlaw Жыл бұрын

    This segment was cherry picked for the political agenda pushed by the second speaker.

  • @Parasmunt

    @Parasmunt

    10 ай бұрын

    The first speaker was like the antithesis of the second speaker, he devoted his career to developing cardiac technology to help people live longer.

  • @louisehaley5105
    @louisehaley51057 ай бұрын

    We shouldn’t treat our parents worse than our pets ! Why do we continue to force our loved ones to endure the hell of dementia, painful and debilitating illnesses etc that we wouldn’t expect any nonhuman animal to endure. Are human beings worth less ? The right to die is a fundamental human right.

  • @55north17
    @55north1710 ай бұрын

    Watching this reduces life span in that it discourages the will to live.

  • @ferrantepallas
    @ferrantepallas11 ай бұрын

    Statins and vaccinations? Are you kidding?

  • @petervandenengel1208
    @petervandenengel1208 Жыл бұрын

    The fact when a more develloped culture could reach a longer lifespan, it would be inappropiate regarding low income countries makes no sence at all. This is politicizing abstract science. A weird way of thinking.

  • @mycount64
    @mycount649 ай бұрын

    its not increasing life expectancy as a maximum. It is an average. Longevity has not increased. The average has changed. So, you chances of living to be 80 have increased your chances of living to 120 years has not.

  • @rozaucja8612
    @rozaucja861211 ай бұрын

    Choose a plant-based whole foods diet :)

  • @gmw3083
    @gmw308311 ай бұрын

    Paraphrasing the Geek woman, 'If you believe in the science you're gonnadye'. The key to immortality is ever closer....

  • @jahidulhasan2943
    @jahidulhasan294314 күн бұрын

    whenever you hear someone say the word science 2-3 times in one sentence be cautious about that person and what they are trying to sell

  • @mycount64
    @mycount649 ай бұрын

    live forever is impossible. Statistically you will eventually be in a fatal accident that you cannot recover from. Question, is a risk based question.

  • @kennethmarshall306
    @kennethmarshall3069 ай бұрын

    A bit of a non PC start from Prof. Noble

  • @thomasbradley2916
    @thomasbradley29169 ай бұрын

    All problems are soluble - including death

  • @GreaterGood2024
    @GreaterGood2024 Жыл бұрын

    He missed shaving some of his moustache 😆

  • @birdman4274

    @birdman4274

    Жыл бұрын

    I think it's a new trend 🤣

  • @AndreiHaiduc
    @AndreiHaiduc10 ай бұрын

    Is it the woman talking or an AI with pre-programmed answers based on today's trends?

  • @stevenverrall4527
    @stevenverrall45278 ай бұрын

    Nessa Carey is dangerously wrong about just about everything!

  • @LettersAndNumbers300
    @LettersAndNumbers300 Жыл бұрын

    This IaI thing is really good at missing the mark huh…

  • @lsobrien
    @lsobrien Жыл бұрын

    These speakers are brilliant. Shame most of the talk is behind a paywall.

  • @notu1529

    @notu1529

    Жыл бұрын

    capitalism baby

  • @pot-8-o564

    @pot-8-o564

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@notu1529 Yes, everything should be free. These people obviously dont need money. Why should YOU have have to pay for this? These people should obviously respect your money and use their free time to give YOU information so that YOU dont have to spend any money at all.

  • @pot-8-o564

    @pot-8-o564

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, everything should be free. These people obviously dont need money. Why should YOU have have to pay for this? These people should obviously respect your money and use their free time to give YOU information so that YOU dont have to spend any money at all.

  • @notu1529

    @notu1529

    Жыл бұрын

    knowledge for collective intelligence should be free. same goes to healthcare and other fundamental needs for wellbeing. your simple mind only sees this in a simple light. you should already know what I'm talking about without me having to spoon-feed you. if your mind is simple, your will judgment is also simple.

  • @pot-8-o564

    @pot-8-o564

    Жыл бұрын

    @@notu1529 Well, where i grew up healthcare and public education is free, and it is notoriously shitty, simply because nothing of good quality is free in reality. If this platform on youtube was free, no wise person would accept the invitation, people live lives you know? do you even know how money works? Money is time and energy, it cannot be free, it takes hard work.

  • @louisehaley5105
    @louisehaley51057 ай бұрын

    Why strive to extend our lifespans when we don’t value our elderly. We cannot live on indefinitely whilst we continue to breed indefinitely - we have to allow room for the next generation. The price of immortality is sterility. The planet can’t sustain our numbers as it is !

  • @mr.q8426
    @mr.q842610 ай бұрын

    Life is given. Not for us to take. Assisted dying is diabolical and should be treated as such by repulsive rejection.

  • @lenny7053

    @lenny7053

    15 күн бұрын

    Why force humans to suffer needlessly when we don’t do it to our pets. Do we love humans less ?

  • @mr.q8426

    @mr.q8426

    14 күн бұрын

    @@lenny7053 "force humans to suffer needlessly" is an objectively wrong moral stance. You know it. I know it. I am not advocating it! I am advocating appreciation of time and humbleness of ourselves. And at all cost we should avoid causing a potential situation where death is an option to consider. Death is in fact the very lack of options.

  • @piscinediquinto
    @piscinediquinto11 ай бұрын

    the geek hasnt any knowlede on molecular biology ,you can also reverse ageing look at sinclairs work, ai will help enormously but in the end we are doomed from heat death the universe will be extinguished

  • @kessu83
    @kessu838 ай бұрын

    Geek gave the ideokogical talk...not very scientific..

  • @progyandas9650
    @progyandas9650 Жыл бұрын

    'There is aging in animals' ....when in discovery channels one can actually see lions age .

  • @Parasmunt
    @Parasmunt Жыл бұрын

    So she is worried about people in the First world living too long, she thinks that is not 'fair'.

  • @maddiesilina3833

    @maddiesilina3833

    Жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @Parasmunt

    @Parasmunt

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maddiesilina3833 'Health inequality means the most damaging people would be alive longer and longer to do more damage and create greater problems for the have nots' If she had been talking previously about the possibility of Rupert Murdoch living to 200 i might see her point but she was talking about Western elderly in general 'and we are already the ones driving destruction of the planet'.

  • @CrazyGaming-ig6qq

    @CrazyGaming-ig6qq

    Жыл бұрын

    She pretty much draw a proportionate line between the lifespan of white people and the suffering of everyone else. The unspoken conclusion that she didnt outright utter is: better for the world if all the whiteys perished.