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Building better immune systems
We at Downsize DC want to live longer, healthier lives. The key to this is more-and-better private research, unahampered by the political considerations that tend to bias, distort, and misdirect government research. We want to Downsize DC so less money will be wasted and so more resources will be available for private efforts that actually work. ::::::Here is another example of the kind of research we want to see flourish. Scientists are learning more and more about how our immune systems work, and about how to manipulate them and potentially improve them. ::::::When you watch the nightly news, with its obssesive concern about all things political and governmental, it’s easy to conclude that things are getting worse-and-worse. That’s an accurate picture so far as politics and government are concerned, but that isn’t where the action is. Private, voluntary efforts are making things better-and-better. That’s where the action is. And to get more of this kind of action, we need to Downsize DC.
More-with-less Innovation: Faster, cheaper DNA testing
We are unique individuals, every human being having a unique genetic code . . .
Is imitation the most sincere form of flattery?
Recently, the CATO Institute, one of the major think tanks in Washington, released a new book titled “Downsizing the Federal Government.”
They shoot horses don’t they?
They shoot horses don’t they?
More-with-less Innovation: Higher mpg and mpc
Put your car in a deep freeze and interesting things could happen.:::
More-with-less Innovation: A little dab will do it
Stems cells of all varieties hold great promise for fixing many health problems, if only you can persuade them to become what you want them to become. What’s the right approach? Should you give them a bath, or just a little pinch of something?:::
Human Innovation: Got hair?
A cure for baldness is the holy grail of the quest for cosmetic pharmaceuticals . . .
Human Innovation: Many voluntary sector prices in free fall
Politicians talk about free education, free medical care, free this, and free that. But the price tag for these “free” things always seem to be measured in the billions of dollars. Meanwhile, in the voluntary sector . . .
Social Power vs. Government Failure: First, do harm
Physicians operate under the principle that their first obligation in treating a patient is “to do no harm.” Big government seems to operate by an entirely different standard.:::