Hartley also said commercial successes like SpaceX came from areas where the entire field only exists because of government investment; he argued that no private company would be willing to provide the massive up-front investment with no guarantee of a return needed to start a field like spaceflight. “[The National Institutes of Health] and government agencies generally use the wrong model for research,” Early said, arguing that they seek to fund specific researchers instead of focusing on measurable goals like defeating a certain disease. Leal said while that company didn’t take federal funding to create the vaccine, it would have been impossible without the Nobel Prize-winning research of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, whose work was supported by numerous federal grants over the years they spent developing their mRNA technology.
Author: February 26, 2026
Published at: 2026-02-26 00:00:00
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