Lafferty debate, ASI

One of my favourite events of the scientific year, the humorous Lafferty debate at ASI 2019. 

This year, the value of mouse research. Fantastic points put forward on the incredible value that mouse research has given to immunology. Right now it is popular to diss mouse work, but it is worth remembering that almost the entire basis of immunology - the cell types, the immune responses, the origin of immune diseases - is based on mouse immunology. Yes, there are some differences between mouse and human, but the incredible advances in treating immunological diseases have come from work that developed in mouse. Parallel mouse-human research is the only method that has actually cured disease, so let's not throw out the winning formula.