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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?

Wow, do you have anything resembling an argument to go with that list of boo lights?

What would such an argument look like?

I could reply with the various statistics showing that gays and lesbians in the states have become more monogamous in the past thirty years, but since advancedatheist has already assumed all such behavior is "self-destructive", it wouldn't matter much whether they were monogamous or non-monogamous, would it?

We could peruse the literature and determine that the basic template of this one-liner is much in the vein of similar ill-informed remarks made by preachers, politicians, and other pundits over the past th... (read more)

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