By controlling medical research funds, you are in the position to guarantee that a cure will be found in 15 years for any disease you choose. Unfortunately, no progress on any others would be made during that period. Would you target one disease?
No I wouldn't. What if researchers are only five years away from a cure for cancer, but I've decided that all they're gonna work on is athlete's foot? Fifteen years from now, no one will have itchy feet, but cancer will still have claimed millions of lives.
*Question of the Week comes from The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock, Ph.D.
THATS JUST A SILLY RESPONSE ARRON! FIRST OF ALL WHY WOULD YOU DECIDE TO FIND A CURE OF ATHLETE'S FOOT OVER CANCER OR AIDS? AND SECOND OF ALL, RESEARCHERS ARE NOT FIVE YEARS AWAY FROM FINDING A CURE FOR CANCER. THEY WILL NEVER FIND A CURE FOR CANCER BECAUSE THAT MEANS THAT A HUGE BUSSINESS IN THIS COUNTRY WOULD BE BANKRUPT. THATS THE MEDICAL/DRUG COMPANIES. THEY WANT US TO STAY SICK AND RELEYING ON THEM TO MAKE US "BETTER" OR I AS I LIKE TO SAY TEMPORAY CURES. IT COMES DOWN TO THE FACT THAT IF THEY FIND A CURE FOR ANYTHING WE STOP HAVING TO GO TO THEM EVERYTIME WE GET SNIFLE AND SHELL OUT HUNDREDS UPON HUNDREDS OF $$$! SO I WOULD MOST DEF. FIND A CURE FOR ONE DISEASE BECAUSE ITS GONNA BE ONE MORE THAN THE DRUG/MEDICAL RESEARCHERS WILL EVERY COME UP WITH!
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