Except that the Ice Bucket Challenge did not misappropriate research dollars. They created new research dollars out of thin air. There is not much reason to b

Except that the Ice Bucket Challenge did not misappropriate research dollars. They created new research dollars out of thin air. There is not much reason to believe that the people who donated in response to the Ice Bucket Challenge would have otherwise donated those same dollars to some other, more common disease. As usual, Surowiecki does a great job: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/als-and-the-ice-bucket-challenge http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/als-and-the-ice...