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Allocating Public Disease Research Resources
Ignoring the merits of public funding, should the ratio of medical research focus between conditions/diseases that afflict kids versus the elderly be something like 100+:1?
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Re: Allocating Public Disease Research Resources
Diseases affect the elderly far more frequently than they do children. Just a thought to include in your calculations.
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Re: Allocating Public Disease Research Resources
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Diseases affect the elderly far more frequently than they do children. Just a thought to include in your calculations. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah but who cares, they're old. |
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Re: Allocating Public Disease Research Resources
I prefer to live in a country where 50% of the poplulation dies before reaching the age of 5, and the other 50% live to be 120. You waste a lot of resources on educating children during the first 20 years and it's basically an investment. Also young people are more prone to violence. Old people are non-violent, experienced, smart and CAN be mentally productive (retirement is a stupid invention for non-phisical jobs).
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Re: Allocating Public Disease Research Resources
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I prefer to live in a country where 50% of the poplulation dies before reaching the age of 5, and the other 50% live to be 120. You waste a lot of resources on educating children during the first 20 years and it's basically an investment. Also young people are more prone to violence. Old people are non-violent, experienced, smart and CAN be mentally productive (retirement is a stupid invention for non-phisical jobs). [/ QUOTE ] You mean where 50% of people die before age 5 and 50% of people are magically transformed into 60 year olds, right? |
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Re: Allocating Public Disease Research Resources
I hope not, no one's gonna fund my glaucoma research if this is the case. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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