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 @adamgreenfield VC tries to claim credit for inventing the Covid vaccine, but that's a lie. The Moderna vaccine was made possible because of high risk, low potential for success, research into mRNA vaccines. That research was paid for by an NSF grant won by a Black woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett. She led the "Moderna" mRNA team. She couldn't have raised VC.🤷🏿♂️ 5 comments
@vy @mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield we could go back to thomas paine giving all the money he made selling Common Sense to George Washington, who couldnt otherwise afford to start his army, and say the US wouldnt exist if it werent for one of the inventors of socialism @vy @mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield we could also look at how the whigs used public money to fund the creation of the Erie Canal and say New York City became the epicenter it is today directly because of using public money for internal improvements @vy @mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield yep! mariana mazzucato is good on this topic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Mazzucato  @mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield I have tried to be as informed as possible over the pandemic but had no idea of the origin of the Moderna COVID vaccine. Reading about it on her wiki page, of course there's some both sides-ing and inclusion of Fox "News" quotes. Sigh. |
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@mekkaokereke @adamgreenfield like tesla could not have opened a factory without a loan from Obama’s DoE or the basic structure of the internet depended on DARPA or …
There is no industrial capitalism without publicly funded R&D - back sice basic machine tools came from theUK navy yard in the 1700s