Comment on Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Trump also got the covid vaccine invented, produced, and distributed. It was probably the greatest thing he ever did but now he doesn’t even want to be associated with it. Alas.

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes and no, warp speed only needed to exist in the form it did because Trump had fired the existing pandemic response team.

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    • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good point. On the other hand, Canada didn’t fare any better even without firing its pandemic response team.

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      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Canada’s per capita case rate has generally been less than half that of the US"

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• sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why should the world benefit from our taxpayer funded research? I want my taxes spent on training Americans so as to let the world watch (for free) fast running and swimming.

  Am still waiting for a skipping event in the Olympics.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The world isn’t benefitting from your research, you benefit from the world’s research based off your own research, on and on it goes and we all get smarter and know more and strive towards bettering our condition, curing our ills and minimizing suffering and maximizing happiness for all.

    At least in my opinion it’s why scientific research while a truly neutral morally activity and generally done as an end unto itself - from a broadly humanist standpoint is a ga worth pursuing, even when the immediate benefits aren’t seen by the shortsighted.

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    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have heard GOP politicians using that line though. Something like “why should we fund a cure for a disease and everyone else benefits without spending a cent”

      Why doesn’t their national pride on the world stage extend beyond sport?

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      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Because that wouldn’t make as much money.

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