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There is plenty of politics in science. Unfortunately.
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No shit, as well as plenty of PC. About two years ago I did a post elsewhere that showed the NIH funding for PC diseases (i.e., AIDS and breast cancer) was vastly overloaded compared to non-PC diseases that kill many more people, e.g. heart disease and cancer, using the metric of deaths per year. I don't know how it is now, but at that time prostate cancer, which kills about as many men as breast cancer kills women, was starved for funds. It was well-known that young researchers wouldn't go into prostate cancer research, as there was no money. The same thing being true of private donations - how many times have you heard a company brag proudly that it is a contributor to the Susan G. Komen breast cancer fund. When there's a charity 10K run, it's almost always for PC diseases. The infuriating thing about this is that trainloads of tax money, MY money, has been used for a disease that is
entirely preventable. As for people with other diseases, they can drop dead. One can actually
die from political correctness.