Posted by ricochet11 1 day ago
It's like, wow, us humans have a new tool to help us be our best!
Beautiful!
Is this actually possible? It seems really ambitious to aim to open by the end of 2027.
If every hospital had one, even if they sat idle 90% of the day, thats enough to hit that target.
It does not work this way.
If they sat idle for 90% of the time, they wouldn't have enough time for the 60 second scan, let alone moving people on and off the platform. The math for their claimed target does not work.
If they were just creating a new less-invasive and differently informative alternative to fMRI / PET / EEG / CT for researchers and doctors to use in hospitals, where experienced human doctors were given agency in finding out how best to use the tool and interpret the results (understanding all the caveats that go for full body scans, false positive rates and so on[0]), then that would be amazing, a tiny step forward for the human race. But packaged like this, eww.
Which is why the current US administration is destroying any kind of science that might find, say, climate change, or emerging pandemics.