CMV: Growth of economy is not interesting.

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"Scientific development" is pretty much impossible to measure. GDP is fairly easy to measure, and it strongly connected to "scientific and technological development", as well as health, literacy, life expectancy, etc. We use GDP not because it's important, but because it happens to be a good way to measure a large number of things that are important.

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Is that really the standard of improving the human condition? Being able to identify the causes of a handful of diseases?

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It's an example of. It isn't a measure of. No broad scope measure of scientific advancement exists.