They were talented idealistic risk takers on the road to what they thought would be important medical discoveries. But when funding for for risk takers dried up, these two academics called it quits.
This terrifies me, both from a personal "I am about to apply to grad school for biostats and epidemiology and want to do research" standpoint and a "this has tons of possible implications for our future as a society and I don't like any of them".
And I don't really know how to fix it.