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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?

I could reply with the various statistics showing that gays and lesbians in the states have become more monogamous in the past thirty years,

Well, that would actually be on topic, and then advencedatheist or myself could actually look at your statistics to see whether the size of the effect was significant or whether the statistics themselves are BS. I haven't look at the statistics in detail but from what I've seen of society that does not in fact appear to be the case.

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 thirty years,

Well, you'd need to establish that those remarks were themselves "ill-formed" and you can't do that just by looking at what they said, you'd have to compare it to reality.

OK, if you want concrete arguments:

This [the relative overfunding of HIV research as compared to other, more pressing epidemics] happens because gays have organized politically

The first thing wrong with this statement is the knee-jerk association of HIV with the gay community, which disregards the difference between the vulnerability gays had during the past century and their better standing today. Gays kept their sexual life secret because mainstream culture routinely feared, hated and misrepresented them. In such conditions they were much more expose... (read more)

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