Comment · Wed, April 10, 2013 · Ceretropic
Why Spend a Billion Dollars to Map the Human Brain? - Dana Smith
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soapjackal · 1 points
The reason I posted the links is because I thought you were literate and would read them.
The organization in question was merged into the one in the wiki.
And my two points being
A. The human genome project took a bunch of ideas from that private sector group to speed up research
B. private sector will fund research things like this, counter evidence to your whole 'genome mapping' government intervention.
The HGP was great and all, also relatively small amount of money compared to this countries dumb wars, but it is not definitive proof private sector could not do it.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
I did read them. How do you think I got the info? I get that they are successfully doing private genome research... 16 years after the HGP started. I understand that the private sector can do many things efficiently. However, they did not start out in the field because it was too risky back in the early 90s. The goverment funding got us to a point where the private sector could take over.
Take space travel for example. There is no way a private organization could have started the space race. There is no way they could have funded the research needed to get where we are today. However, since the government spent what it did, and discovered what it did, private companies can now take over for many of the tasks. The financial barriers to entry are much less today, thanks to the government funding. The same goes for human gene research.
I get what you are saying, but it does no prove that government funding is unnecessary. As I pointed out, it actually proves the opposite. I never thought I would be arguing for government programs, as I am a pretty serious Libertarian, but here we are.