What?  This is so very wrongheaded.<p>We learned quickly that &#x27;cancer&#x27; is to the twentieth century &#x27;the fevers&#x27;. We learned there are many reasons and causes for the catch-all, &#x27;cancer&#x27;.  Some we now know how to cure effectively.  Some we now now how to prevent, effectively.  Some we now know what to do to cure, but don&#x27;t have good tools yet.  And many we still do not understand.  That is a <i>significant</i> improvement in a very short time span.<p>But there&#x27;s a LOT more to learn than &#x27;how to cure cancer&#x27;. We very clearly understand gene expression and signal transaction to a first order, and have bits of the second order down too.  There might be more - but that doesn&#x27;t make that first order inneffective or wrong.  There&#x27;s lots you can do with a first order understanding - see what Newtonian physics did for the world - it was correct only to the first order.  The idea that we know &#x27;fuck-all&#x27; about biology because of dna sequencing is just ridiculous.  The ability to read and write dna is fueling one of the fastest growing segments of human progress today.