Imagine if the research and development of treatments and vaccines for endemic pathogens and genetic disorders were… you know… socialized
It’s a clash between scientists needing to be optimistic about their findings to maintain funding and real people needing it asap. We need to fund more medical research outside of for-profit corporations and increasingly expensive academia
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
WoodenBleachers@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 months ago
I hear this argument all the time, but the majority of the major research comes from the US [1]. My inclination is that, because the US is for-profit, the cures are developed faster and the science is here. The socialized nations lack, it’s a fact, and it’s certainly not for a lack of resources
AA5B@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It seems like the COViD model worked pretty well. One of these days I’d like to better understand the process, but I believe it was something like ….
Vaccine developed by private companies but with a lot of government funding but more importantly, massive contracts at a fixed price.
kpw@kbin.social 6 months ago
Outside of for-profit corporations and outside of academia? So neither the private sector nor the public sector? Who should do medical research then?
there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Imagine if there was a global fund for disease cures that all the industrialized nations poured their money and resources into.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you’re talking about The Global Fund, they only attack very specific diseases, mostly eradicated in industrialized nations but persist due to poverty (like malaria).
there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
Which is silly because eradicating them in some places while leaving them elsewhere just costs more money anyways.
DarthBueller@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wonder to what degree anti-western sentiments impact the delivery of certain treatments. Thinking about the distrust I read about after a fake vaccination campaign was used to take out bin Laden, and other distrust and anti-messaging that has to be contended with. It sounds so impossibly frustrating to have the added burden against such basic medicine.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I can just imagine the opportunities for corruption in such an organization.
there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
I’m curious how we will ever be advance to the point of being a post-scarcity space faring civilization if we don’t take these sorts of steps because we’re too busy wondering about what might go wrong
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 9 months ago
I highly doubt we’ll get to a post-scarcity space faring civilization stage. More likely, we’re in the midst of the “self-destruction” part of the Great Filter.