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So would solving cancer, so why start at baldness ?
by bamboozled 4y ago
So would solving cancer, so why start at baldness ?
- jjoonathan 4y agoSure, why not run a marathon instead of taking a first step? There are thousands of steps in a marathon, it's literally thousands of times better, so why not do it instead?
- culi 4y agoThere's only one scientist in the world and we have to collectively decide what she focuses on... Is that how it works?
- bequanna 4y agoI prefer to think of the scientists working on solving balding as Larry David or George Constanza-types. Bitter about their hair loss, kept going by the promise of a better life in the future through hair.
- thedailymail 4y agoThere's a baldness research team at the institute I work at. The head of the lab looks like a talk show host from the 1980s, and his work is derided by other labs. But he brings in more external funding than any other group, I don't think of him as a lonely crusader.
- seydor 4y agoTrue, we could also prolong erections...
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- sib301 4y agoBecause we as a species can multi-task. Many billions of dollars are spent on cancer research every year by the NIH alone. Imagine if we did all our research as a species in series as opposed to in parallel.
- throwaway09223 4y agoBecause we don't know how we will discover new things. Because demand for popular things can drive research into important things. Because there's no reason not to.