When you add up penicillin, etc., science is probably up about 3-4 billion lives overall. Sounds like a good trade. No one's right all the time. (View Post)

Fortunately, her views on science and policymaking are well known. And when -as with AIDS- science clashed with her personal morality, she chose science. (View Post)

I don't think the party of scientist Margaret Thatcher would have had a vaccine conspiracy theorist headline a Conservative Party conference. (View Post)

Candidly, the Bill Gates thing is absurd. Bill Gates is richer than Croesus. What this means is that he has holdings in almost every company on earth. I wouldn't be surprised one of my VCs has Bill G… (View Post)

Lucky bastards. I wish we didn't have a government. (View Post)