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one thing that really gets me as someone embedded in the production of scientific knowledge is that very few scientists truly interrogate what it means to work for the public good when science has long been unable to answer the whitey on the moon problem. ie, many known public health interventions are cheap and would save lives. they don't get deployed for political reasons. what does it mean about you that you still locate the public good in scientific research funded by the same political incentives that denied those same public health interventions? it means you're a mark.