Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Prestige first
A random thought about the need for a new Trinity House, a private PROFIT-MAKING institution that would fund REAL science and combat FAKE science.
Current vaccine development is all government funded.
This was NOT true of the most successful vaccines in previous eras. Smallpox inoculation was developed by healers in the region around Turkey about 500 years ago. "Science" wasn't even a concept. Inoculation was brought to England and formally "sciencized" by Jenner, again without government help.
The polio vaccine was strictly crowdfunded in the modern sense. FDR strongly endorsed and encouraged the March of Dimes but didn't fund it.
New thought: A major obstacle to reconversion is that researchers simply can't conceive and don't want funding outside government and academic channels.
About 8 years ago, the holocaustally hyperinsane "city" of Spokane was preparing to waste $200 million building miasmal swamps and flood generators in order to reduce phosphorus pollution in the river from .0000000000000000000000000002 percent to .0000000000000000000000000001 percent.
I heard about a researcher who was working on a much simpler way of controlling algae, a method that wouldn't require creating miasmal swamps and floods. He wasn't able to get government funding. I corresponded with him, offering to run a crowdfund with a large ante. He seemed blindsided and quickly backed away from the idea. I concluded that he didn't really want to solve the problem, he just wanted to get the GOVERNMENT grant.
Prestige, or rather RELIGIOUS PURITY, counts far more than money, and you don't get prestige from crowdfunding. Some of the money might be contaminated with Deplorable cooties.
Jenner and Salk didn't work that way. They got the money, solved the problem, and THEN got the prestige.
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