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And there’s simply no argument that the Human Genome Project benefited humanity more than a collider. Think what $100 billion towards cancer could do.


Maybe not that much. They could 100x the sample size of all their experiments giving one decimal point more. They could research some more obscure cancers.

Research into virology seems a bigger thing to research. There is way more "parallelism" there meaning funding could be allocated more efficiently nin some given time frame.




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