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This Chart Shows The Worst Diseases That Don't Get Enough Research Money

We have already covered this topic several times on LW, but what prompted me to link this was this remark:

Of course, where research dollars flow isn't —and shouldn't be— dictated simply in terms of which diseases lay claim to the most years, but also by, perhaps most importantly, where researchers see the most potential for a breakthrough.

[Edit: a former, dumber version of me had asked, "I wonder what criterion the author would prefer," before the correct syntax of the sentence was pointed out to me.]

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This Chart Shows The Worst Diseases That Don't Get Enough Research Money

We have already covered this topic several times on LW, but what prompted me to link this was this remark:

Of course, where research dollars flow isn't —and shouldn't be— dictated simply in terms of which diseases lay claim to the most years, but also by, perhaps most importantly, where researchers see the most potential for a breakthrough.

[Edit: a former, dumber version of me had asked, "I wonder what criterion the author would prefer," before the correct syntax of the sentence was pointed out to me.]

Opinions?

An interaction of public policy and technology has reduced (and continues to reduce) deaths per million vehicle miles traveled.

One other thing to note here is that it isn't clear how much of the technology improvement is technological improvement in medicine. In particular, there's an argument that murder rates have gone down because people who would have died from from some injuries are now being saved. (See e.g. this summary. ) If so, this has likely also contributed to the reduction in automobile fatalities, although I'm not aware of any studies which have specifically looked at that impact.

Though this still leaves the door open to mitigating road traffic injury, and injury more generally, through improved medical technology. There is at least one juicy bit of low-hanging fruit waiting to be taken here.

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