When I worked at NIH after college I remember a quote on the walls along the lines of "Think research is expensive? Try disease." - ThreadSky

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marcelemoran.bsky.social • 13 days ago

When I worked at NIH after college I remember a quote on the walls along the lines of "Think research is expensive? Try disease."

Reposted from Kevin M. Kruse

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

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Comments

westsidewitch.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is also what climate Scientists say about .env disasters.

districtofalex.bsky.social•13 days ago

And IT professionals regarding security breaches.

westsidewitch.bsky.social•13 days ago

Nice. Yup

funmandave.bsky.social•13 days ago

The problem is, we’re talking about republicans. They took the bumper sticker, “Think Education Is Expensive? Try Ignorance” as a suggestion.

doctorobvious.bsky.social•13 days ago

Disease is profitable. Vaccines are cheap.

louisamiller.bsky.social•13 days ago

Unfortunately half the country seems to want to try disease, and by the time they figure it out, the departments will all be gone.

ghoststryder.bsky.social•13 days ago

We had a similar one that said "Think education is expensive? Try ignorance."

ghoststryder.bsky.social•13 days ago

Based on DOGE's myopic view of the world I'm afraid we're going to have to order the t-shirts for the ones that say "Think Democracy is expensive? Try Authoritarianism"