Trumping innovation
Cuban scientist barred from receiving U.S. prize - Americas - MSNBC.com
Here's a guy who created a low-cost way of innoculating millions of people, including the poorest of the world, against a bug that causes meningitis and pneumonia in little children. He's from Cuba, therefore he must be evil, according to the US State Department.
Actually, I think that there are people in the US pharmaceutical industry who know key people in the state department, and they're pissed that someone is undercutting them. I say this because I'd like to think that the people in the state department aren't so stupid to simply decline entry to a person who is a scientist above everything else--and a humanitarian one at that. And people wonder why we stir up such dislike for Americans amongst the world.
Here's a guy who created a low-cost way of innoculating millions of people, including the poorest of the world, against a bug that causes meningitis and pneumonia in little children. He's from Cuba, therefore he must be evil, according to the US State Department.
Actually, I think that there are people in the US pharmaceutical industry who know key people in the state department, and they're pissed that someone is undercutting them. I say this because I'd like to think that the people in the state department aren't so stupid to simply decline entry to a person who is a scientist above everything else--and a humanitarian one at that. And people wonder why we stir up such dislike for Americans amongst the world.
posted by xanadian at 8:41 AM
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