They're just doing what politicians do. Joe Biden experienced a personal tragedy. Instead of accepting defeat, they turn the tragedy around into a platform for

They're just doing what politicians do. Joe Biden experienced a personal tragedy. Instead of accepting defeat, they turn the tragedy around into a platform for promoting new policies. It's similar to how most famous comedians struggle with crippling depression. The best humor isn't crafted from some precise 'funny formula.' It comes from disassociating and learning to laughing/joke about the same crazy shit in life that was driving you mad. ----- Unfortunately, politicians don't actually do anything except write policies that enable others to do the work. They tend to have a skewed perspective on what is and isn't possible. Funding isn't the issue, science is. I used to know somebody (ie SD is weird) who works directly on the bleeding edge cancer research. The next generation of treatments will target specific classes of cancers based on characteristics of the cancer cells; then, reprogram the immune system to attack those characteristics. If chemo is the equivalent of dropping a nuke, medication the equivalent of dropping napalm, the new approach will be like building an army to overthrow a rebel uprising. If a treatment works as expected, it will only work for a specific class of cancer. As another comment already pointed out, cancer is a class of diseases so there'll never be one cure. Either way, science takes time. Unlike software where an order of magnitude improvement can sometimes be gained by using a better algorithm or better architecture. Scientific research requires brute force. Nobody is going to sprinkle unicorn dust (ie money) on the problem to make scientists magically discover a cure tomorrow. The biotech research industry is already flush with money and using the best technology that industry has to offer. This article absolutely hits the nail on the head.