I keep quoting this, but I really liked Derek Lowe's comment on the similar "moonshot funding" proposal for cancer research by Joe Biden and co.: "Trying to cu

I keep quoting this, but I really liked Derek Lowe's comment on the similar "moonshot funding" proposal for cancer research by Joe Biden and co.: "Trying to cure cancer in this way would be like trying to go to the moon without really knowing how rocket engines actually work, without being quite sure if Newton’s laws of motion would hold up, and with some real uncertainty in the position of the moon." http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/01/15/moonshot-they-say http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/01/15/moo...