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scientist after another to take her in. She never made more than $60,000
a year."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/health/coronavirus-mrna-kariko.html

Innovation in science is a messy, chaotic business which doesn't respect
race, language, age, tuition amount, gender or gender preference,
religion, or political boundaries.

Mao was correct:

"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought
contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the
sciences..."

while cynically psychopathic:

"[Mao's] initiative [may have been] a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the
regime. Whether or not it was a deliberate trap isn't clear but it is
the case that many of those who put forward views that were unwelcome to
Mao were executed."

We don't need any more inquisitional 'task forces' which will demoralize inventive scientific thought; on the contrary, we need to instead
encourage more risk-taking through a wider distribution of research
grants.

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2020 11:11:11 -0800
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