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Cancer research funding is laughably low. These deaths not necessary. They are a choice that we make as a country. NIH spends $6 billion on cancer research eve
by light_hue_1 4y ago
Cancer research funding is laughably low. These deaths not necessary. They are a choice that we make as a country.
NIH spends $6 billion on cancer research every year. Google alone spends $31 billion on research activities every year.
A single company literally spends 5 times more money doing research on how to serve ads better, than we spend as a nation on curing cancer. Truly pathetic.
Cancer kills 1 in 4 people or so. We haven't increased funding for cancer research in 20 years. Direct costs of cancer care are over $200 billion per year in the US alone.
If you compare cancer to the moon landing. The moon landing cost about $500 billion inflation corrected. It will take 100 years before we invest that much money in cancer research at the current rate. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people dead for no reason.
Once people begin to think of these deaths as a choice we make to needlessly let people die, we'll finally be able to invest the resources necessary to stop cancer.
- packetslave 4y agoThat $6 billion presumes that the all cancer research is being funded by NIH grants, though. I imagine there is plenty of research being done in major pharmaceutical labs like Pfizer, J&J, Merck, etc.
- sytelus 4y agoHumans, except for very cream of the crop (and that too in limited time window), is not rational species. The chimp genes still dominates our majority of the short and long term actions.
- xyzzy123 4y agoUnfortunately everything causes cancer, every biochemical mechanism can be related to cancer somehow. As a researcher in life science or chemistry or whatever you "package" whatever you were doing anyway to meet grant terms. This means that (after the politics are done) increased cancer funding ends up being an increase in "general" science funding. What's also needed is much better targeting of the money already spent.