[marvin]

I never thought that the ethics of medical research could risk falling prey to the same traps of reasoning that cause short-sighted decisions in business - namely that easily measurable short-term concerns trump greater but less measurable long-term concerns.

But this is probably known to people who are in the field. You have to defend your decisions the same way you would in business or investing, but instead of people shorting your stock, you will have people trying to cut your funding, accuse you of causing harm and ultimately trying to destroy your reputation/career.

It’s fascinating how this trap of group fallacy has the potential to affect different fields, like there’s some universality to the human behavior behind it.