re: #734 realwest

Just thought that, since a number of folks have come on board on this thread recently, I’d like to re-post Iron Fist’s #261 above:

If it doesn’t have a suitably high reward to compensate for that risk, then all private funding for all experimental medicine across the board will leave this country for places where the risk is rewarded

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The above quote would be more accurately stated as “places where risk is accepted”. My point being that many other nations support advanced scientific research that may be considered too risky for private investors, or corporations with nervous shareholders. Nations do this type of thing because they see it as benefiting and advancing their societies as a whole, in more ways than just individual profit.

If they succeed it will be because the leader of the past, the USA, took a pass and, as an aside, we see that kind of attitude in places like Texas and Louisianan where creationists can influence education. One can be pretty confident that no medical breakthroughs will be seen in those states in the future. If we had been meant to cure disease, we would not have been given any.