Posted on 03/16/2014 5:22:19 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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American science, long a source of national power and pride, is increasingly becoming a private enterprise.
In Washington, budget cuts have left the nation’s research complex reeling. Labs are closing. Scientists are being laid off. Projects are being put on the shelf, especially in the risky, freewheeling realm of basic research. Yet from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, science philanthropy is hot, as many of the richest Americans seek to reinvent themselves as patrons of social progress through science research.
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Fundamentally at stake, the critics say, is the social contract that cultivates science for the common good. They worry that the philanthropic billions tend to enrich elite universities at the expense of poor ones, while undermining political support for federally sponsored research and its efforts to foster a greater diversity of opportunity — geographic, economic, racial — among the nation’s scientific investigators.
Historically, disease research has been particularly prone to unequal attention along racial and economic lines. A look at major initiatives suggests that the philanthropists’ war on disease risks widening that gap, as a number of the campaigns, driven by personal adversity, target illnesses that predominantly afflict white people — like cystic fibrosis, melanoma and ovarian cancer.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
ALL Government "research projects" are designed solely for the purpose of getting the next round of funding. It's always about money.
“White guilt” brainwashing on university campuses goes mainstream via NYT propaganda.
That.
Our ultimate national collapse is unlikely to be stopped otherwise.
Thank you both for that instructive exchange.
<<< The biggest problem with cancer treatment research is that some of the most effective treatments require lifestyle changes for the patient and don’t provide huge profits for the medical industry. >>>
This is a very important point that you make. Our lifestyle, particularly diet and smoking, contributes significantly to the incidence of cancer. There is a reason why it was a rare disease in ancient times but very common now. The human genome hasn’t changed much in two thousand years, but our diet certainly has. For one thing, we eat much greater quantities of sugar and other carbohydrates than our forebears did. Refined carbohydrates are the worst.
Consider this article:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/757713
I agree; hwo much more research needs to be done once you know how it all works? I’m tired of hearing commercials asking for donation and asking for help raising awareness.
Interesting article (I skimmed it)...have you read Peru tiers “Grain Brain?”
Perlmutters...stupid samsung spell corrector
I haven’t yet read Grain Brain but am quite familiar with its theses. It is in the same vein as Wheat Belly by William Davis. There is a lot happening on the low-carb front these days. My wife and I stopped eating most carbs (and all grains) over two years ago. Our health (including metabolic markers) has benefited greatly. A good video for beginners considering the low-carb/high-fat diet is this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSeSTq-N4U4&feature=related
Privately funded research ain't about political correctness. It's about discovering something you can make money on.
We *don't* know how it all works--that's why people like me (medical researchers) remain gainfully employed.
We’ve spent billions more on HIV than would be warranted given the small fraction of the population that routinely suffers from it (LBGTA).
We could literally save tens of millions of lives - of all races - if we had poured that money into researching the next generation of antibiotics instead.
Even as a new minority, white people can’t get helped out by science.
Biomedical - eye diseases
My original version of my post gave several fields. I alternated sciences with things like community organizer. My second science one was “biomedical.”
Hey...THANKS for posting that video...I’ve watched and sent it to family and friends and posted it on Facebook....the pictures of the guy shrinking down to size were fantastic! It’s what’s been happening to me as I’ve been reducing carbs for 6 months.
You are quite welcome. This Swedish doctor — Andreas Eenfeldt — also runs an excellent LCHF (low carb high fat) web site with lots of late-breaking developments/discussion in the art and science of low-carb nutrition.
I check it out every day.
Good luck in your quest for healthy eating.
IOW, the New York Times wants health research to stop, and pursue a racist agenda.
Thanks reaganaut1.
We've been 'taken' enough...
Hey WILLIAM J. BROAD of the New York Times. Do you think you boys at the Times would 'catch' Republicans if we invited 10 million Chinese to live here if they agreed to vote Republican?
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