Former Intel CEO Rips Medical Research

Himuanam writes "Former Intel CEO Grove rips on the medical research community, contrasting their lack of progress with the tech industry's juggernaut of breakthroughs over the past half-century or so. 'On Sunday afternoon, Grove is unleashing a scathing critique of the nation's biomedical establishment. In a speech at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, he challenges big pharma companies, many of which haven't had an important new compound approved in ages, and academic researchers who are content with getting NIH grants and publishing research papers with little regard to whether their work leads to something that can alleviate disease, to change their ways.'"

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Maybe

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

Maybe Intel and others of the "tech juggernaut" would be singing a different tune if they had to:

1. Get government approval before selling anything. This approval only comes after spending hundreds of millions to billions to open a new fabrication plant and start cranking out brand new designs of chips.

2. Had Hillary and other politicians running around talking about the "unconscionable profits of Intel", and how the government should nationalize Intel and other high tech corporations "for the common good." Or nationalize in all but name only, with the government deciding how much profit Intel should be "permitted" to make, so computers don't cost so much to people (which is ridiculous, but if people believe that about drugs and medicine, why not bleeding edge electronics?)

Re:Basic Research

[Trailwalker]

Expanding the sum of human knowledge is never a waste of time.

An unproven platitude that provides a rational for pseudo academics trying to avoid real work.