[yetanother123]

Except - your statements might be well meaning, but they are a) inflammatory b) poorly formulated and c) not backed by any kind of evidence. You keep referring to programming, but the equivalent of your argument is "oh well, Big data will win because my cousin frank used a spreadsheet to make a million bucks"

[briantakita]

a: It's only inflammatory because there's a strong bias

b: It's only "poorly formulated" because the prevailing opinion isn't critical of western medicine

c: Discussions of conjecture are allowed. At this point, the causes cancer is conjecture, as the isolated causes have been elusive despite the billions poured into research

[maxerickson]

How do you fit the BRCA genes into your anti reductionist framework?

They are, at a minimum, highly specific predictors.