Excellent article on the importance of private funding for cutting-edge science.

“The skepticism toward private science funding is part of a broader anti-capitalist sentiment, likely fueled by real affordability problems in housing, healthcare, and education. These concerns are understandable. But directing private capital toward fundamental science benefits everyone, and treating this the same as other uses of wealth only ensures that money flows into megayachts rather than research.”

Private wealth funded most of history’s scientific breakthroughs. Stigmatizing it now is holding us all back.