alt Hacker NewsWhy can’t we just ask our governments to spend more on research? Want some rich person to donate $100 billion on cancer research?
The US government and European governments could find that amount of money every year.
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We are not the bosses of the people in the government, so asking does very little.
You can't compare the output of small teams driven by a fanatic with a single output metric with government funded research. NIH invests about 40 billion in research a year in the US as it is I believe.
In another timeline they're doing a "Cancer Moonshot" right now.
> The US government [...] could find that amount of money every year.
Sorry, that money is already earmarked for killing Iranian school girls and funding a gestapo to terrorize immigrants and American citizens. Ain't got enough left over after we cover those essentials.
The United States and world spend huge amounts of money on this, not even to mention the enormous amounts of private research.
The takeaway here is getting money into the hands of smarter and more motivated people.