• chunes@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    There are thousands of diseases that need more research. For every ice bucket challenge, there are a hundred more diseases with similar prognoses that go under-researched.

    I think this is a result of severely misplaced priorities in society. How many marketers do we really need? Couldn’t they be doing something far more useful?

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        3 days ago

        Medical research is like youth sports.

        Sure, 99.9% of these kids aren’t going to go pro, but most of them will learn something useful.