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Ispyin said:
We'retheBoss said:
Ispyin said:
Trying to figure out how anyone thinks cures for aids or cancer are cause to be funny.
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Yes, how dare people take a happy occasion and ruin it by adding jokes and laughter! This is the internet, not a place for cracking wise!
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Right exactly, another national title before a cure is pretty funny. Lmao over that brilliant dose of comedy.
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You are aware that one can't actually trade the cure for a title, right? There is humor in the absurd. Not saying that particular joke was funny, but to get on some faux-high horse about how no jokes can be made at all regarding the topic is just asinine.
 
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Ibis4life said:
Gamineal said:
magic Johnson says hello....
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Magic is alive today thanks to the ****tail of drugs that prevents the HIV virus from becoming full blown AIDS. This is a potential vaccine that would stop you from becoming HIV Positive, which Magic still is to this day. In addition, it has applications to other diseases and could eventually prove to be a cure for diseases such as some cancers, malaria, etc. No, it is not sports related, but it could be worth billions to the U both financially and through positive reinforcement of our academic status as a research university. Just think, fifteen to twenty years from now the world acknowledges all of these diseases were cured thanks to the University of Miami.
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It sounds as if the research might have been funded by NIH. At the end, the reporter mentions that a future step might be to go back to NIH for more funding. I'm not sure how patent rights work when the research is funded by a government agency.
 
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arcane said:
Ibis4life said:
Gamineal said:
magic Johnson says hello....
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Magic is alive today thanks to the ****tail of drugs that prevents the HIV virus from becoming full blown AIDS. This is a potential vaccine that would stop you from becoming HIV Positive, which Magic still is to this day. In addition, it has applications to other diseases and could eventually prove to be a cure for diseases such as some cancers, malaria, etc. No, it is not sports related, but it could be worth billions to the U both financially and through positive reinforcement of our academic status as a research university. Just think, fifteen to twenty years from now the world acknowledges all of these diseases were cured thanks to the University of Miami.
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It sounds as if the research might have been funded by NIH. At the end, the reporter mentions that a future step might be to go back to NIH for more funding. I'm not sure how patent rights work when the research is funded by a government agency.
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Good catch. I imagine that the University will still reap a windfall.
 
Don't think you guys know how this works.

If there's some promising approach, and the tiniest discovery, then the scientific team have just found something they can make a career out of while 'researching.' They'll go for funding every year, and incrementally announce findings, and progress, but every year, this 'discovery' will need further research and testing.

Before you know it, ten or twenty years has gone by.

The dude that discovered a few scattered bones from different strata, but put them together named his discovery "Lucy." And that's been his entire professional career. Milk it, milk the research dollars, and you have a good annual income.

You find a cure, you're out of business.
 
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UMFarArcher said:
Don't think you guys know how this works.

If there's some promising approach, and the tiniest discovery, then the scientific team have just found something they can make a career out of while 'researching.' They'll go for funding every year, and incrementally announce findings, and progress, but every year, this 'discovery' will need further research and testing.

Before you know it, ten or twenty years has gone by.

The dude that discovered a few scattered bones from different strata, but put them together named his discovery "Lucy." And that's been his entire professional career. Milk it, milk the research dollars, and you have a good annual income.

You find a cure, you're out of business.
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I think you underestimate how much enjoyment and satisfaction a lot of scientific types get from doing this research, and how much that excitement and satisfaction build when their efforts combine with a little luck to produce a major breakthrough. If you're picturing some little marginal-employables needing to eke out a living through gaming the system, you have it precisely backwards. Most of these guys could make two or three times as much working in industry, either in their current fields or as top notch engineers, computer analysts, financial-industry quants, or some such.
 
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