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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
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Subject: Re: Re: Shameful Statistics
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Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 01:23:50 EST
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> Again, the wrong question is implied.  More relevant:  Would spending  more
> than  $140 million dollars annually significantly speed up the finding of a
> cure for AIDS?  I'd cheerfully trade a couple of F-16's  for  a  cure,  but
> it's not at all clear that such a tradeoff exists.

	No, $140M in a year probably wouldn't cure AIDS, but one tenth of that
could vaccinate every child in America fully, which would probably save just
as many lives.  
-- 

				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
                 "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."