• @nutsack
    link
    209 months ago

    What the hell happened to Public Funding for Science and shit

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In
      link
      19 months ago

      Would a publicly funded study into a weight loss drug receive a sufficient share of a government’s research budget?

      • @nutsack
        link
        19 months ago

        I’m not sure I understand your question but maybe it should

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      -229 months ago

      Someone that doesn’t understand how much capitalism has done for research.

      The scales aren’t the same, the public would never allow that sort if risk, its completely impossible for governments to cause that amount of drug breakthroughs

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        19 months ago

        But the public of course is just fine having a little 10 trillion military excursion in the middle east. You don’t even need to explain how it will be profitable in that case. Because of how passionately everyone wanted this.

        For old people cancer, capitalism is the only possible option.

      • Flying Squid
        link
        19 months ago

        You apparently don’t understand how much government-subsidized research has done.

        Ever had an MRI? Ever known anyone who had an MRI? Ever known anyone whose life was saved because something was discovered on an MRI?

        Thank NASA, not capitalism.