On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 7:48:19 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 04:39:33 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote:

On Monday, April 2, 2018 at 7:37:42 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:

On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 05:14:19 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel
wrote:

And do you REALLY believe
gov't bureaucrats would spend the money as wisely as corporations?

In general, yes. Public funding is pretty much the only thing that has
ever worked for scientific research that was long term or which didn't
promise immediate commercial results (or in some cases, didn't suggest
any commercial results at all).

Agreed ... for long-term vs. short term. But long term is already being
funded by the gov't.

Only in some cases. There are many areas where private enterprise is a
poor tool for providing something. This includes a lot of health care,
and that includes at least a number of areas of pharmaceutical
development, I think.

I know of some development of vaccines for virulent stuff by CDC, but I'm
not aware of pill development and such. I see a LOT of private pharma
outfits coming and going away.