Assertion: crick's colleague | /r/CapableOf | take the devil's advocate position
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text: At large and diverse scientific gatherings (such as the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, with more than 30,000 attendees), I have occasionally heard colleagues overwhelmed by the diversity of the field take the devil's advocate position and suggest that it would be more efficient to focus tens of thousands of scientists on one massive and urgent project at a time—for example, eliminating Alzheimer's disease.