Because Capitalism, Rawks!

The Bill and Melinda gates Foundation has just dropped a load of cash supporting the research of an AIDS vaccine. Here a few sample quotes:

"But the $287 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also comes with the requirement that researchers share data and collaborate in a way that's rare in science. Vaccine candidates that don't pass muster will be quickly abandoned. Those that show promise will get fast-track treatment."

"The goal is to pool some of the world's brightest minds to break through the daunting technical obstacles that have stymied two decades of work on a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS."

"Of the 50-some possible HIV vaccines that have been tested in humans, only two have progressed to large-scale trials. One didn't work. Trials on the second started last year, coordinated through Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
"HIV is an incredibly flexible and changeable virus," Hellmann said. "We have to be smarter and more efficient."


Huh, this sounds strangely like competent decision making, there is no way it came from Seattle, there’s not nearly enough politics and special interest groups involved.



Try this in Canada or France and see how long it takes.

Yes, I realize the irony of the Commy in the picture.