If Billionaires Fund Your Research, Don’t Take Public Money
If Billionaires Fund Your Research, Don’t Take Public Money
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 19, 20169m 5s
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Show Notes
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's announcement in September that they will pour $3 billion into research, mainly at elite universities in California, with expressed interest to "cure all disease" within a century, was an endearing move from new money billionaires who have pledged to devote their phenomenal wealth to supporting biomedical research.
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