20th Century Deaths.

It should always go to the projects which will have the greatest social impact, however it is rare that it does.

Often third sector and some public sector research funds will go to social impact - the causes which really need to be looked into and sorted out

Some public (largely medical research because its good for their careers) and almost all private research funding will go to the most profitable markets or the most politically useful causes in the case of public sector.

I actually work for a major research funding organization (naming no names), sad the way things work out.
 
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chief barker said:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/20th-century-death/

Where should the research money go?.
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Medical research has a good track record for usefulness. Smallpox killed 400 million in the 20th century. Now it doesn't kill anyone. That's the most obvious example, but there are many others and there's an ongoing need. For example, despite the best efforts of all the scuzzers who routinely cough on people, tuberculosis isn't currently a serious danger in countries with very widespread access to effective medical treatment. Not currently, but it might well be a serious danger again at some point in the future due to the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria. If there isn't enough medical research to keep up with that evolution, tuberculosis will be back as a major killer everywhere.
 
mark66 said:
6m deaths by Snakes? So on average 60,000 a year or 165 a day. Really?
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That does seem suspiciously high.


Asia

The highest rate of snakebite fatalities by far occurs in south Asia, particularly on the Indian subcontinent, where nearly 11,000 deaths occur every year, accounting for over half of estimated snakebite deaths worldwide. Southeast Asia contributes approximately 790 deaths every year as a conservative estimate; however some more liberal estimates place this number at closer to 19,000.
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I'm surprised at that.
 
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mark66 said:
6m deaths by Snakes? So on average 60,000 a year or 165 a day. Really?
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Apparently so. There are a lot of venomous snakes in some parts of the world and it's easy to disturb them so bites are very common even though they're unlikely to go out of their way to attack humans. We don't see it around here, but it's a serious risk in some parts of the world.

http://www.toxinology.org/GSI-epidemiology2.htm

Where death registration data were reliable, reported deaths from snakebite were used; in other countries, deaths were estimated on the basis of observed mortality rates and the at-risk population. We estimate that, globally, at least 421,000 envenomings and 20,000 deaths occur each year due to snakebite. These figures may be as high as 1,841,000 envenomings and 94,000 deaths.
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Angilion said:
I agree. Civilisation is in many ways more vulnerable than it was in, for example, the late 1340s.
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When you ward off the simple threats you make way for more complex issues.
Mo' knowledge, mo' problems.

Superbugs, nuclear armageddon, increasingly complex weaponry, the tory party. We've got more threats to humanity every damn day.

Also the snake deaths don't seem that high when you consider how many people work in hot climates on the plantations, long grass beneath the coffee plant or whatever it is, you're bound to get a fair few snake bites. They can't exactly cart little "acducadoguengo" off to the hospital in an ambulance, likely a few days walk. It's a very real threat in impoverished areas.
 
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Good to see the Nazis and fascism killed fewer than communism yet they're hated the world over whereas communism was widely embraced. Also a little bit on the American democracy war bit, does that include the internal sectarian violence in countries such as Iraq or are they included in something else?
 
Dis86 said:
Good to see the Nazis and fascism killed fewer than communism yet they're hated the world over whereas communism was widely embraced. Also a little bit on the American democracy war bit, does that include the internal sectarian violence in countries such as Iraq or are they included in something else?
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To be fair communism as a theory works, it's the greed in practice which ruins it.

I'd like to see some percentages of deaths as the entire population affected by the issue as well.
 
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