@liamsLCjourney I understand. But it is still an important conversation to have. How much funding is needed at the current pace. In the end, this is the result of years of scientific and medical neglect. Laying that out can be powerful in itself and raise awareness towards research funding.
@liamsLCjourney According to this model, maximizing human research growth (+24%/year) and increasing funding to $1B+/year could get us to a cure by 2041, even assuming AI accelerates research by a conservative 3% annually and expert-level AI doesn’t arrive until 2045.
"When will we have a cure for ME?"
We hear this question all the time, yet there never seems to be a clear way to answer it.
Today, we're excited to launch our work towards an answer: a public, interactive prediction model that gives a best guess as to when ME will be cured:
lcmedata.org/cure/
Months in the making, our team analyzed research speed, funding, clinical trial reform, the impact of AI, and the history of dozens of diseases similar to ME to come up with our model.
Our aim is to start a conversation, so play around with the interactive toggles, pick your year, and if you have disagreements or improvements, speak out publicly! We'll be folding feedback into ongoing updates.
“Just having a conversation… can impact you afterwards. When I say impact you, you feel like you're dying basically.”
Former Olympic sprinter Beth Dobbin describing post-exertional malaise the hallmark symptom of #ME.
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