A Defense of Weird Research
Government-funded scientific research may appear strange or impractical, but it has repeatedly yielded scientific breakthroughs — and continues to pay for itself many times over.
The NIH and NSF
blog.jacobtrefethen.comThis decade brought two inventions that will prevent a million deaths in America. One came from a German company who partnered with Pfizer to make Comirnaty available nine months into the COVID pandemic, becoming the most used vaccine in the U.S. at its peak (vs Moderna’s and J&