Re:Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, t...
by Ericson2314 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:37AM
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Please do not spout these things while utterly neglecting NIH and NSF funding the basic research.
If you want I'll critique the rest.
Re:Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, t...
by bradleyjg on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:43AM
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The current approach used by the NIH is a response to the failures of socialism. The Bayh–Dole Act was passed in 1980 and signed by noted right winger Jimmy Carter.
Advocating for central planning in 2021 is like advocating for NoSQL—-lots of pretty arguments vs the overwhelming weight of real world evidence.
Re:Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, t...
by CydeWeys on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:43PM
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We've never remotely had anything akin to socialism in the US. The USSR, China, Cuba, Venezuela, yes, absolutely. But neither socialism nor communism were ever used here in the US.
Re:Oxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, t...
by anigbrowl on Sunday January 24, 2021 @04:53PM
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Oxford, the inventors, were originally willing to give the invention away for free. It's the central contention of the article we're discussing. How can you omit that from your argument?
It’s amazing to me that we now have a generation coming up that doesn’t know that we—-that is the human race—-tried socialism, really gave it the old college try, and it. did. not. work. For a significant period of time most of the educated people in the world thought it would work. This was not some fringe idea that was never given a fair shot.
(I’m talking here about actual socialism, not welfare capitalism that many on the contemporary left and right call socialism for their own propagandist reasons.)