Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill

Re:Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill by ludston on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:22AM (#19602910)

I invent another imaginary hypthetical situation:

4. Nobody makes any attempt to create a treatment, but after only six months a miracle occurs. Nobody dies and everybody is cured for no reason.

Not saying that there isn't any, but where is the evidence that a government funded research team would be slower than the privately funded one?

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Re:Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill by Mirioron on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:58AM (#19603096)

The problem isn't that a government funded research team is slower, it's that the private research team is in addition to the government research team. There are an uncountable number of illnesses and conditions that treatments could help with, but we have only so many resources to throw at these problems. Additional resources will allow us to find treatments for problems that we couldn't afford to research otherwise.

If the government invests $100 billion into medical research and private companies invest another $100 billion then we're probably getting more medical research done than if only the government invested $100 billion into medical research, and the private companies spent the $100 billion on making movies.

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Re:Gene Therapy Was Hailed as a Revolution – Then Came the Bill by Jweb_Guru on Monday April 08, 2019 @03:38AM (#19603002)

Considering that many effective research teams are government funded, I suspect there is essentially no evidence of that.

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