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And note a huge chunk of government R&D is defense. HHS/NIH is like $30B a year, which makes the $80B comparison even more compelling.
by tedsanders 9y ago
And note a huge chunk of government R&D is defense. HHS/NIH is like $30B a year, which makes the $80B comparison even more compelling.
- digi_owl 9y agoThe weird thing being that some of the biggest leaps of technological development have been during wartime, because then budget is no issue. The early cultivation of penicillin involved walls of cotton balls acting as growth environment. Laborious, ineffective and expensive, but maintained so that the army hospitals were provided a reliable supply.