Agreed. Like cancer, we have put billions into research and have little to show for it. I am not very confident in scientists.
On the subject of cancer, yes, that's something else I've heard the same tired platitudes bandied about for over half a century. Nothing has changed.
But on that front, I do believe there are advances in treatment that we 'little people' just aren't privy to. An example of this is a friend of mine who died a couple of years ago at age 65, of the same exact type of brain cancer that ex-President Jimmy Carter had. He went overseas and was cured in a matter of months. My friend, lacking that special treatment, died horribly.
Tells you things.