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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by Lionga on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:26PM (#37743966)
It mostly shows that gov. funded research grants are broken and just fund echo chambers.

Even if it was not easy pharmaceutical companies finally did invest.

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Re:Nobel Price in Medicine goes to development of mRNA vaccines by funcDropShadow on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:39AM (#37761618)
> It mostly shows that gov. funded research grants are broken and just fund echo chambers.

No, it shows there are weaknesses in the government-funded research grants. But it is far from clear which other system would be better overall not just in this case.

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