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by 300bps 4549 days ago
Like there’s a $3 million prize that some of the Facebook and Google billionaires have put up for medical breakthroughs. They seem to misunderstand how medical research takes place.

This lady is out of her gourd. She appears to be talking about this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/science/new-3-million-priz...

This alone makes it obvious what her real problem is. She wants people to give their money to causes that she supports. She does that by stating that they aren't civicly minded but she's just belittling what civic-minded tasks they're doing because she thinks other ones are important.

Entire article was a waste of time to read.