[istultus]

The important thing is that these things get funded. It doesn't matter what institute funds them. If an institute becomes stultified and corrupt, there's no reason to champion it over creating another.

[karaterobot]

That's true, but I have lots of experience with the NIH, and haven't found it stultified nor corrupted. In fact, did you hear they recently funded a project that reversed type 1 diabetes?

[jghn]

> If an institute becomes stultified and corrupt

Are you implying the NIH is "stultified and corrupt"?

If so, care to back that claim up?

[anon84873628]

Besides what others have said, the government is immune from many of the multi-agent coordination problems that trap other types of entities. It's basically the essential reason we have government at all.

So no, not all things government does can be replaced by the private sector, for reasons of game theory.

[catlikesshrimp]

There is no certainty the new order will be better than the previous one.

Trying to fix the world with a sledgehammer.

[yapyap]

What does this comment mean? What institute are you referring to in this cryptic comment?

[ipv4dhcp]

Then fund it yourself! Don't try to force me to pay for it.

[jghn]

I hope that you do not consume a single dime of government resources that I'd prefer not to pay for. But I'm going to be that's not true.