Our profession, like most other professions, has been trained to take things apart to understand the whole. While this works fine in the mechanical world, it has failed us largely in the living world.
Butland B, Jebb S, Kopelman P, McPherson K, Thomas S, Mardell J, et al. Foresight. Tackling obesities: future choices—Project report [1]. (Open Government Licence v3.0))
How much research has been published to “ solve the obesity epidemic ” that has had no appreciable impact? Has this fact altered researchers’ enthusiasm for deeper research into their particular interest part, or has it shifted policy and funding bodies’ support of research towards ...