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Human Genome Project was $3B. It is especially salient because in a sense it was in competition with Superconducting Super Collider, which it won. Big Science
by sanxiyn 4y ago
Human Genome Project was $3B. It is especially salient because in a sense it was in competition with Superconducting Super Collider, which it won.
Big Science and Big Politics in the United States: Reflections on the Death of the SSC and the Life of the Human Genome Project (1997) is a classic in history of science analyzing this competition.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoAnd there’s simply no argument that the Human Genome Project benefited humanity more than a collider. Think what $100 billion towards cancer could do.
- freemint 4y agoMaybe not that much. They could 100x the sample size of all their experiments giving one decimal point more. They could research some more obscure cancers. Research into virology seems a bigger thing to research. There is way more "parallelism" there meaning funding could be allocated more efficiently nin some given time frame.