I think prevention is important when it comes to dealing with chronic diseases, but I also believe in putting resources into research. Unfortunately, research is expensive, and requires large amounts of grants with little guarantee of a final product, and is therefore not always the best investment.
Nonetheless, I think it's an investment that has to be done. What could be better, though, is if labs and groups start partnering up for projects. It seems like there is still a big sense of competition between researchers, to get their papers published, to take credit for a major breakthrough, to get the grants for themselves and their institutions...but if everyone researching within the same subject matter pool their expertise and team up, there would be less time and money wasted on projects that have essentially already been studied and re-studied to exhaustion.
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