Science

IANS: I ain't no scientist.

I'll also say I am just a dabbler in history, but it is my impression that over the centuries and millennia, prophets have proclaimed that there is nothing new to learn. Don't study the stars, don't study those little amimalcules, Newton's physics is all anyone needs to know. Get back to your religious texts or whatever.

The author talks about lack of progress since the 1970s as if this is some significant period of time in humanity's steps towards perfection. I think it's a rather short period and I think a lot of science has happened during this period. Perhaps not the science that he considers significant.

mRNA understanding and technology is, of course, one of those huge leaps made (along with most genetic science) during this period.