ClaimsJeremy Grantham

“With progress in the study of the human genome, we will soon see breathtakingly expensive ways to reduce the incidence of very rare diseases and much more that will be hard to ration or resist.”

Jeremy Grantham, GMO essayist July 2010 GMO Quarterly Letter July 2010 Summer Essays (GMO) archived copy

Prediction Technology

With progress in human genome research, breathtakingly expensive ways to reduce very rare diseases, hard to ration or resist, will soon appear.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

'Soon' is vague and 'breathtakingly expensive' undefined.

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Jeremy Grantham, “With progress in human genome research, breathtakingly expensive ways to reduce very rare diseases, hard to ration or resist, will soon appear.” (said July 2010). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a8d34691b93e, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a8d34691b93e

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