NIH Can't Afford Ebola, Can Afford A $10 Million Video Game About A Town Full Of Fat People
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 10:20
in Mathematics & Economics
When Ebola was the latest rage in mainstream media (that would be last month - poor people in Africa are so October of 2014) National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins was quick to capitalize on it - they could have had a vaccine by now, he claimed, if only funding had not been flat since 2004.Science blogging was, naturally, quick to blame Republicans and The Sequester and whatever else would get Democrats to the polls in the run-up to elections. read more