Tagged: health
Much Ado About Personalized Medicine… or Why the Nose of Biomedical Research Keeps Growing Longer
The following article first appeared in German in the June 2025 issue of Laborjournal and was translated with the help of ChatGPT
Personalized medicine – or, as it prefers to be called these days, precision medicine (PM) – has been heralded for some time now as a kind of salvation. The great leap forward on the path to a healthier, more satisfying, and longer life. PM sounds so good, who could be against it? So convincing that it seemingly no longer needs any further proof that it represents something genuinely new – the golden road to the future of medicine.
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Due to time constraints, I haven’t been able to maintain my blog since June 2023, which is why there haven’t been any new posts since then. However, the following article (published in Laborjournal 4/2023) fits very well with the last post, “Artificial Intelligence: Critique of Chatty Reasoning” and since I’ve received many requests for an English version, I asked ChatGPT (which, by the way, didn’t take offense at the content!) to provide a translation. The original German version can be found in Laborjournal.
AI has the potential to revolutionize medicine — but a reckless ‘move fast, break things’ mindset, industry lobbying, and glaring scientific gaps in transparency, validation, and bias control are getting in the way of building truly evidence-based AI.
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To infinity, and beyond! 