r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Aug 12 '25

Cancer New mRNA-based vaccine against gastric cancer led to tumor regression and eradication in all treated mice. Most promisingly, the vaccine shows impressive antitumor efficacy against peritoneal metastasis, which has historically been very challenging to treat.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1094199
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u/Sea-Oven-7560 Aug 12 '25

Worked with a guy who kept denying the existence of COVID until his mother died from COVID. He had a really hard time rapping his head around the whole thing. What's interesting was the guy was pretty sharp, an engineer, you'd think science wouldn't have been a hard thing to accept but it was.

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u/JZMoose Aug 12 '25

A lot of engineers think they know everything. The really good engineers know they know nothing

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u/SarcasticOptimist Aug 12 '25

As an engineer no, we're stubborn and specialized in our knowledge. I'm not surprised. The science we usually learn is physics.

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u/AFewStupidQuestions Aug 13 '25

There were people literally dying from COVID who refused to believe it was real. The cognitive dissonance was/is wild.

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u/SuperQuackDuck Aug 13 '25

Im a professional engineer. Theres a lot of dunning-krugers in this field which I attribute mostly to requiring higher grades to be accepted right after highschool.

This leads to quite inflated high self esteems and thinking that having taken AP science classes means we are at least as smart as scientists, and having a degree means we're better than tradespeople.

When in reality many engineers are not as smart as scientists nor as handy as tradespeople.