James Watson: 'cancer research is over regulated'

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...ancer-research

"I got real annoyed with someone … at the end of his talk he said, 'we're going to get somewhere over the next ten to twenty years'. He could have said twenty to forty or why didn't he say five to ten?"
"We should try and cure cancer now, not ten to twenty years from now," Watson warned. "It would be sort of irresponsible to all those people who would die of cancer if we don't try and do it now."


"We are nearly there", was his message for the evening, having suggested that the medicines to do the job might already be in use for other ailments, but that doctors and scientists may not have recognised their anti-cancer properties yet.

[chrisy]

"People are so frightened by being wrong," he continued, "I figure that it doesn't matter if you're wrong, if you're sometimes right. The main thing is to try.

I wish we could clone him.