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Yeah, he's cool and his efforts admirable, but you can talk about people's accomplishments without essentially downplaying the role of others. Yes hes helping w

Yeah, he's cool and his efforts admirable, but you can talk about people's accomplishments without essentially downplaying the role of others. Yes hes helping with covid, but he didn't go single handedly convince J&J to develop their vaccine platform that they developed years ago. He didn't convince gilead to develop remdesivir, something they developed years ago for hep c. He didn't convince moderna to work on rna vaccines. He didn't convince the fda to fast track diagnostics. And I love how in the list of things, a cure is treated as the ultimate goal, which vaccines and therapies are on the path to. Therapies are essentially cures if they work (since currently you either cure yourself or you die, this is not a chronic infection). And a vaccine is the real end goal since that stops the disease from spreading in the first place and normalizes society again by creating herd immunity etc. Prevention > treatment

woobity 7y ago
It is hurtful to say the least. Some of the real heroes are the scientists doing lab work here. And they're not being paid millions to do it. Altman has zero training in immunology and is riding the coattails of their work with this kind of phony PR.
- vikramkr 7y ago
  Yeah. Take credit for the work you do (and altman isn't doing nothing, he's helping in the effort). But don't take credit for leading the entire industry. Dont take credit for things you didn't earn the credit for. And to another commenters point, attempting to qualify it with the word "helped" doesn't make it better if you're saying he "helped" with leading an entire industry pivot. He didn't. There was no silicon valley led biotech pivot. Biotech did its job and is foing its job. He's helping with covid, but not with leading the biotech industry. And hes not leading those amazing homegrown efforts like the one in smartereveryday's latest video detailing his effort to 3d print PPE in huntsville. Leading the tech industry to pivot to work on covid though? Maybe - I could buy that. If hes been working with tech companies to join the effort.

woobity 7y ago

It is hurtful to say the least. Some of the real heroes are the scientists doing lab work here. And they're not being paid millions to do it. Altman has zero training in immunology and is riding the coattails of their work with this kind of phony PR.

vikramkr 7y ago
Yeah. Take credit for the work you do (and altman isn't doing nothing, he's helping in the effort). But don't take credit for leading the entire industry. Dont take credit for things you didn't earn the credit for. And to another commenters point, attempting to qualify it with the word "helped" doesn't make it better if you're saying he "helped" with leading an entire industry pivot. He didn't. There was no silicon valley led biotech pivot. Biotech did its job and is foing its job. He's helping with covid, but not with leading the biotech industry. And hes not leading those amazing homegrown efforts like the one in smartereveryday's latest video detailing his effort to 3d print PPE in huntsville. Leading the tech industry to pivot to work on covid though? Maybe - I could buy that. If hes been working with tech companies to join the effort.