[Da Coyote]

Perhaps we should remind ourselves of how many billions go into “shrimp on treadmills,” climate change, innumerable “art-f*rt” waste-ola, etc., when we might better direct our funding to folks with a real education and real accomplishments who actually have a non-zero chance of improving the human condition.

More bucks to cancer research would be nice.

And spend a few extra bucks to shoot those arts idiots who insist on covering bridges, etc with sheets and other examples of their non talent.

[chris_bdba]

Amen! It burns me to no end that a disease that is not in the top 10 killers in this country receives most of the research dollars(AIDS) while 2 diseases that ARE in the top 10 killers, cancer and diabetes, receive a fraction of those dollars

[bboop]

I just got an invitation for our organization to participate in ‘portraying homelessness in art.’ Haha. We do music, so unfortunately we won’t be able to participate. But if we could, we wouldn’t. Let’s see — Michelangelo vs ‘homelessness’ — which portrays real beauty??

[AndrewC]

“We’ve been obsessively focusing our attention on 2 percent of the genome,” said Dr. Pier Paolo Pandolfi, a professor of medicine and pathology at Harvard Medical School.

And why do suppose that is?

[goodwithagun]

We've been trying to find a cure for cancer for decades now. Imagine how quickly one could be discovered if private individuals funded the research instead of never-ending gubmint money. Same with AIDS, although the main problem their is that it is preventable. There are those unfortunate souls in the medical profession that have been infected through needle sticks. Those are thankfully minimal.

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