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Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

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Re: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

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Post by SEJeff »

a13n wrote: post #2

"Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion initiative to ‘cure all diseases’" http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/21/mark-zuckerberg-and-prisci...

I suspect it would have been much better for them to simply partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where they're actually curing diseases. They've literally almost eradicated polio globally[1].

    [1] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Polio

Re: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

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Post by 0xmohit »

a13n wrote: post #2

"Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion initiative to ‘cure all diseases’" http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/21/mark-zuckerberg-and-prisci...

  Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion
  initiative to ‘cure all diseases’
The title contains a typo:

  s/initiative/investment/
From the article:

  Today’s announcement follows the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s
  investment in Andela, a startup that trains and outsources work
  to developers in Africa.

Re: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

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Post by dewitt »

nenadg wrote: post #4

Oh that's just great, another billionaire philanthropist curing all diseases. Like Gates did. I don't know whether their passion loses momentum inside 'initiative/fund' or it was doomed to be opposite of it's cause from the start?

That's a strange reaction. Hasn't the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation been one of the most successful philanthropic organizations of all time? I thought they've saved millions of lives fighting malaria alone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...

Re: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

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Post by maxerickson »

nenadg wrote: post #4

Oh that's just great, another billionaire philanthropist curing all diseases. Like Gates did. I don't know whether their passion loses momentum inside 'initiative/fund' or it was doomed to be opposite of it's cause from the start?

Which efforts of the Gates Foundation do you think are particularly 'doomed to be the opposite of it's cause'?

Re: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

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Post by xixixao »

SEJeff wrote: post #5
a13n wrote: post #2

"Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion initiative to ‘cure all diseases’" http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/21/mark-zuckerberg-and-prisci...

I suspect it would have been much better for them to simply partner with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where they're actually curing diseases. They've literally almost eradicated polio globally[1]. [1] http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Development/Polio

And Bill just walked onto the stage :)

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Post by vosper »

nenadg wrote: post #4

Oh that's just great, another billionaire philanthropist curing all diseases. Like Gates did. I don't know whether their passion loses momentum inside 'initiative/fund' or it was doomed to be opposite of it's cause from the start?

What would you rather they do with all that money?
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