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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by kylestlb on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:16PM (#27911554)
"Almost all progress is connected to selfish goals"

[citation needed]

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by WalterBright on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:24PM (#27911660)
More like find one that isn't. I bet you can't :-)
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by agrover on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @09:47PM (#27914408)
Salk and Polio vaccine.
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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by WalterBright on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:26PM (#27914589)
Salk said: "It's brought me enormous gratification"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by staunch on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:38PM (#27914658)
Salk got funding for his lab from the billionaire Mellon family. The Polio vaccine is a prime example of how billionaires can help push civilization forward.

> Sarah Scaife's causes were family planning, the poor and the disabled, hospitals, environmental causes and various good works in and around Pittsburgh. Her most famous gifts, in the late 1940s, were to the University of Pittsburgh – $35,000 to equip a virus research lab. In that lab, Jonas Salk discovered his polio vaccine.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clint...

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Re:Bezos donates $100M each to CNN contributor Van Jones and... by imwillofficial on Thursday July 22, 2021 @12:48AM (#27915476)
How how far the Salk family has fallen. Weren’t they implicated in the opiate crisis?
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