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[–] aviationeast@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

If I had a billion dollars, I would be funding at least a few mad scientists, so let's go with won't.

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[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

I'd say "shouldn't" or we have pieces of shit like Epstein funding scientists working on eugenics projects and and Monsanto ghost-writing papers saying that their products "definitely don't" cause cancer and they're extremely fine to use, trust me bro.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

The privatization scam is what led to fascism

[–] berg@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

Private money cannot replace public funding ~~of science~~

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago

Actually, there's a model for replacing private funding in research. Especially for fields like pharmaceuticals which rely heavily on it. All we need is the will, and for people to vote.