If there was never a war, do you think more money would have been spent on cancer research? Nope.
A lot of basic science really could be funded by government but there really isn't popular support to do it. Someone needs to figure out a way to get more invested basic research, either through public and/or private money.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 17.1 ms ] threadA lot of basic science really could be funded by government but there really isn't popular support to do it. Someone needs to figure out a way to get more invested basic research, either through public and/or private money.
That's the point the graph is making: priorities are screwed up.