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Why Sergey Brin May Have Disclosed His Risk for Parkinson’s
- vaksel 18y agoI'd venture a guess that this is just a way to get billions in free publicity for his wife's venture. Open sourcing doesn't really play for me since Parkinsons is a well known disease so there'd be thousands of scientists working on it already + its not like he can't afford the best of the best
- greyman 18y agoHmm, but the cure has not been discovered yet, IMHO, so even the best of the best is not good enough. I wouldn't accuse Sergey of having ulterior motives...if he really wanted just the publicity for his wife's venture, I think he can do that openly with the help of Google. My guess is, that discovering you tend to have Parkinson is not a joke...I felt like he is just pondering how to accelerate the fighting against the disease; it wouldn't be bad if Google throws itself in health field. Let's see what happens and I for one wish Sergey all the best.
- vaksel 18y agoI'm not really questioning his motives...I'm just saying that if there is indeed an ulterior motive I find the free advertising much more likely than the motive discussed in the article I just don't see some scientist working in another field suddenly getting an epiphany from reading about him having Parkinsons and going "OMG I better switch my research to Parkinsons because 30 years from now Sergey Brin might have it...the man co-founded Google, he is a national treasure!"
- Ardit20 18y agoMaybe, he wanted to show that he is actually human!