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As a billionaire, you could inject billions into research on your specific condition and have reasonable expectation that something will come out of it within y
by badpun 4y ago
As a billionaire, you could inject billions into research on your specific condition and have reasonable expectation that something will come out of it within your lifetime.
- WJW 4y agoCan you though? It's not as if (say) cancer or Alzheimer don't already receive billions in funding but a definitive cure seems as far away as ever. Not all problems can be solved with money, and even those that can be solved with money sometimes need a lot more than billions.
- badpun 4y agoCancer is way better than it was 50 years ago. It used to be mostly a death sentence, now many people live decades after diagnosis.
- floxy 4y ago"U.S. cancer death rate has dropped by a third since 1991" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357895 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357895