Good thing RFK pushed out the official overseeing this financing and the current administration is actively defunding the organizations that produced this.
Better to have more disabled or dead babies instead of science.
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Better to have more disabled or dead babies instead of science.
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That's not to say the research itself is not impressive nor important, but think critically about the fact that this money doesn't exist in a vacuum.
b) the whole point of NIH and other government research funds is to pay for this sort of "not clearly an effective use of dollars" type of research that Pfizer et al won't touch. but you can look at a ton of future applications from this - lipid packaging, CRISPR methods, drug delivery, etc that had to be devised, and could conceivably be commercially viable if the methodology is perfected and the cost comes down.