I Worked to Cure ALS. Then Washington Shut Down the Project

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6 points·amarcheschi··7 comments

A lot of this stuff is a dead end. I think funding it by issuing equity is almost certainly going to be far more efficient. Investors tend to do a ton of research trying to figure out if your stuff is going to work or not and it's their money they're risking, not mine.

It doesn't work that way. Never did. Private labs rely heavily on piblic research, which does most of the scientific work.

Assuming we accept your debatable premise, it still doesn't follow that this is the optimal or only way to fund research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition

Reading this, there's no way of knowing whether the specific program was shut down because of malicious compliance or other reasons.

We might also say that we all love kittens. Should the state fund kitten rescue? If we all love kittens so much, why aren't more individuals banding together to save them? As it stands many people do care about animal welfare and donate heavily to nonprofits which support kittens.

Claiming, "Washington shut down my kitten rescue operation" is a deliberate, politically motivated misframing of the issue.

Are you comparing a Harvard research project funded by the National Institutes of Health to a random individual asking for donations to support kittens?

You do realise that if it got funds in the first place, it means that it was reviewed and accepted in the past? Are you trying to say that Trump is attacking Harvard because Harvard is fundamentally corrupted everywhere?

>You do realize that if it got funds in the first place, it means that it was reviewed and accepted in the past?

Yes.

>Are you trying to say that Trump is attacking Harvard because Harvard is fundamentally corrupted everywhere?

No.

Did you correct my spelling of "realise"?

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