Should we all be donating $0.82 to fund cancer research?

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Does donating small amounts of money to charitable causes even help? I gave $2.00 to a cancer support group tonight. It seems like large donations from rich folks, corporations, non profit trusts and the government must comprise the vast majority of funding for causes like this.

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

Lance Armstrong's cancer foundation has sold tens of millions of bracelets for a buck a pop.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

(Tsunami Bracelet iPod ad ripoffs, etc.)

But in terms of let's say, cancer research where does the money come from. (Also, are pharm companies able to expand on charitable research to get drug patents?)

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:51 (twenty years ago)

your money is paying a cancer research employee so that they can cultivate big money prospects in order to pay for tha ectual reearch.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

sorry ia m hi

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cockeyed.com/workfromhome/workfromhome.html

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

too msuhc informtatuin

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

(Also, are pharm companies able to expand on charitable research to get drug patents?)

Hell yeah. The idea is that Big Pharma is the only place you can go to "market" the drug successfully. So any big-time finding, whether it's backed by private $$, universities, or most notoriously, the NIH, the ball's going to get grabbed by the big kids and taken to another court.

KINDA LIKE TEH RECORD INDUSTRY, EH?

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

My University aggressively pursues patent litigation against drug companies and makes sick bank doing so. It is nice to think that at least some of the drug money is lining the coffers of a non-profit dedicated to doing multi-disciplinary research, even if I know the Deans and Provosts are lining their pockets almost as well as CEOs.

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

Also, who are you?

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

haha

I usually just lurk here

My University aggressively pursues patent litigation against drug companies and makes sick bank doing so.

No shit, I didn't know schools did this. I've read a bit about the NIH scams, which is really sad considering we all pay for that research via our tax money, yet we get ass raped by the companies protecting their "investment." Big Pharma spend $20 BILLION on marketing alone last year. I can't get my head around that one.

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

Large research universities are run like large corporations! Our university spins off tons of startups that the university has a partial stake in. The researchers involved get a stake as well. Everyone wins!

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Also, spin-offs are great for co-ops, internships, etc since the people running them are often your professors.

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

And then the universities funnel the profits back in and pay for everyone's full scholarships and beer money, right? OH WAIT

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

I think most of the money goes to endowments which goes towards staff salaries and infrastructure improvements. Scholarship cash is usually donated and specially flagged as being used for only that.

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

scholarship goes to football and basketball, which, if successful, in turn brings in more money from rich boosters.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

Only in division I.

― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

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