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by cyberax 57 days ago
mRNA is not a good example. If anything, it's a demonstration of why the Western capitalist model is superior to anything else. Most of the mRNA research was funded by venture capital as a high-risk high-reward investment.

In the world of government-sponsored research, mRNA likely would have been passed over in favor of funding research with more assured results.