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> Funding is a political game and the people who are best at politics tend to be the worst at research (and vice-versa).

I'd be interested in a compare and contrast with AIDs research. Same time frame but AIDs researchers threw everything but the kitchen sink at it and made progress.

You got to wonder one field was dominated by status seekers with fat ego's and the other people working on a disease that mostly afflicts people no one cares about.



After reading “And the Band Played On”, early HIV research had enormous ego collisions between Robert Gallo in the US and Luc Montagnier in France.




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