Disrupting Science with Crypto | Office for Science and Society
Let’s say I am afflicted by a common but non-life-threatening condition. I shall refer to this fictional misfortune as “chin gribbles.” I have chin gribbles. Many people have chin gribbles. It’s annoying and it affects our quality of life. When we go to the pharmacy or speak to a doctor, we’re told there are very few treatment options for chin gribbles, if any.
When we look at the research being done on chin gribbles, we see two things. In universities, very few researchers study this condition. The kinds of health problems university professors are likely to get funded to study are cancer and cardiovascular issues; chin gribbles are low on the priority list, so researchers don’t spend much effort on them. In the private…
