on Wednesday doctor successfully separated
a pair of conjoined twins in India it took a team of 40 specialists
working 18 hours this was at
a New Delhi hospital the girls were fused
at their back which actually complicates the issue further because apparently
most conjoined twins it's not their back its at another places
so this is a rare and it's even trickier to successfully do the surgery
they're also really young their one-years-old
which further complicates it in multiple different ways including for example the
anesthesiologists
you know when you're dealing with somebody who's younger you have to walk
a fine line and be more careful an older person might be able to take certain
doses have certain
you know different medicines but you gotta make sure
be extra careful for younger kids that
you don't give them too much or too little the medicine so in
in many different ways this was an incredibly I detailed
endanger is surgery it was carried out in three separate stages
the preparation separation and then reconstruction up their shared
organs which include the lower spine
lower intestinal and urinary tracts
as well as generals and the the typeof
conjoined twins they were there are
in recorded history only 32 cases that's how rare this s
so the successful they were able to do it
and I love this story because it shows you the sheer
dominance of Science I mean the whole concept of Science
its sole genius in its simplicity
because what you do is you find out what works
you tested to make sure it works and you empirically apply that in the future
and just the fact that they needed forty separate specialists
show you something about this that it's not there's no
there's no fakeness here like one specialist can pretend he's also a
specialist in another area because that would fuck up tall surgery everybody
need the needed to stay in their lane
and tell you specifically which is they were good and what they know and that's
it
right it's such a pure %uh form
up figuring things out and and working through problems
and up again when you contrast this with
something like religion me think about religious healers
they would you snake oil and put leeches on you
and sprinkle some goat blood and dance around a fire at night inch and things
into the sky and hope it works
and it never worked and then when it didn't work they would go well we
obviously have to chant louder and put more leeches and more snake-oil work
no I won't bore you are you still reading you know your
and any lightning came around and they said hey guys your needs
you're doing this all wrong here are the things that really work
yet the test to see if it works in if you prove it
you go ahead and continue to use it i mean but my
my biggest issue on this and it struck me as I was
reading the article a match in
if all on the money we spent on a war
all the money we spend on corporate subsidies
faulk half the money a corner on the money if we talk about and we put it
towards
scientific research and technological research
and research on medicine me imagine what we could get done
I mean we've already been able to advance
so significantly when it comes to signs when it comes to modern medicine
and we've been doing it unlimited meets if we actually focused on it and set
specific goals
but let's here cancer less secure
heart disease let's make a goal make it a goal to extend
human life to or 100 years on average were as today in Marin modern nations
it's about 78 79
years old on average got it I know I get carried away I know I'm a dreamer
but that someday it's an idea that I'm obsessed with and if we only had good
leadership if we only did have a
corrupt political system will be able to get it done