Quote Originally Posted by goji
Quote Originally Posted by thaiguest
At a time when medical research needs to redouble its efforts in the area of viral infection etc federal funding in the USA for instance has been reduced.
Governments are so bad at allocating capital, perhaps that might be a good thing.

Seems like we need some innovations to deal with mosquitoes.
A couple of hundred useless governments might not achieve much, but I have higher hopes for 7 billion people & private sector capital.

The governments just need to create the right tax incentives for wiping out mosquitoes.
There are pros and cons with state and corporate medical research . Companies are very good agents of research but of course they're profit driven and thus explore the areas that will have a consumer base that can pay and this base often includes government as customers of course. The state /government has a duty to over-arch vested interests in laying down a strategy at the macro level for the common good but of couse the state moves slowly being the red-tape bound giant that it is. The WHO has had great success in wiping out diseases that plaqued humanity for thousands of years previously. But the next big push will come on the back of renewed and refinanced research by a combination of Nations. Tax incentives for private companies (some of which are bigger than states) sounds like a good idea in this regard.