All disease models are 'wrong,' but scientists are working to fix that
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200505164615.htm
Rebecca Morrison, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder, led the research. For years, she has run a repair shop of sorts for mathematical models -- those strings of equations and assumptions that scientists use to better understand the world around them, from the trajectory of climate change to how chemicals burn up in an explosion.
As Morrison put it, "My work starts when models start to fail."