Submissions by jasoncrawford

Questions to ask about funding models for research and development

Funding Models for Science and Invention

Before Nobels: Gifts to & from rich patrons were early science’s currency (2016)

Funding Models and Progress

A Builder Manifesto

More Progress, Faster, Is Our Best Defense Against This Pandemic and Future Ones

Invite people to ascend PG's hierarchy of disagreement

“Definite” vs. “indefinite” optimism as a false dichotomy

Leadership and Progress

Ossified funding models in medicine throttling our response to Covid-19

Our best weapons against disease don't work on Covid-19

How Early American Inventors Funded Their Ventures

Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

Why Did It Take So Long to Invent X?

The Plight of the Poor

Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics

Why Jonas Salk was ethically opposed to a randomized trial of the polio vaccine

Were vaccines relevant to 20th century US mortality improvements?

The History of Smallpox