Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial...
by handedness on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:29PM
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"If it was up to the NIH to cure polio through a centrally directed program instead of independent investigator driven discovery, you'd have the best iron lung in the world, but not a polio vaccine." -Samuel Broder, former Director of the National Cancer Institute
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Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial...
by folli on Saturday May 11, 2019 @01:35AM
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How are the independent investigators financed if not mainly through taxes?
Re:The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial...
by adolph on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:11AM
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Publisher Gerard Piel credited [Basil] O'Connor with a "unique social invention: a permanently self-sustaining source of funds for the support of research — the voluntary health organization." With a centralized administration, state and local chapters and a large corps of volunteers, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis became the prototype for dozens of similar foundations.