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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by nickthemagicman on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:06PM (#7213824)
This is the way science should be funded.

Imagine if the pace of medical research moved at the pace of javascript frameworks.

We would all be fucking immortal. There would probably be some mutants though. But you gotta crack some eggs.

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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by Fomite on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:47PM (#7214113)
"Fail fast, fail often" is less of a good thing when it's actual people's lives.
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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by jseliger on Monday February 10, 2014 @08:07PM (#7214986)
"Fail fast, fail often" is less of a good thing when it's actual people's lives.

It depends. A lot of people are already losing their lives through inaction.

This is slightly tangential, Alex Tabarrok's book Launching the Innovation Renaissance is good on the subject of FDA inertia and spending too much time trying to prove efficacy and too little emphasis on experimentation and rapid iteration: http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Marke... .

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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by toomuchtodo on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:23AM (#7216135)
Unless I've signed on the dotted line and know the risks.

I'm willing to chance death for perpetual regeneration. No pain, no gain.

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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by nickthemagicman on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:43PM (#7214621)
Damn bro you're dropping eggs of wisdom on all of us.

I agree. You give the kids a PCR machine and suddenly everyone is dead.

Better stop now before it's too late.

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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by icinnamon on Monday February 10, 2014 @04:22PM (#7213932)
Hi- Ian from Immunity Project here. Thank you for your support! We know our fundraising approach for this experiment is novel, and we believe it's the fastest way to get it done.
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Re:Crowd-funded HIV vaccine project sparks debate by nickthemagicman on Monday February 10, 2014 @06:54PM (#7214658)
Thanks for stepping out on a limb and doing something disruptive and new!

We need more open source science!

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