Why curing cancer isn't a "moonshot"

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama tasked Vice President Biden with leading an effort to end cancer. Tabitha M. Powledge writes about what happened then: "The next day, Biden outlined his plan at Medium. At the same time, Gina Kolata and Gardiner Harris pointed out at Well that the moonshot analogy doesn’t fit with reality because it implies, erroneously, that cancer is a single disease with a single cure. That simplistic view was long ago abandoned."

January 16, 2016

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