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I feel the same way. So much money gets thrown around to solve relatively trivial problems, but I suppose it is like a casino where you hope to win. Whereas no one funding this research expects a financial return.

But you’d think that for example you could consider the tax payers as a body which would generally appreciate a cure to HSV. We could imagine the government funding such things. We just dropped an F-35 in the ocean in the South China Sea. I wonder how much research you could fund for the price of one of those.



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