Why does Zuckerberg give out millions of thirty -year -old professors?

Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in San Francisco. Photo: Stephen Lam / Reuters

Imagine a call to the Ministry of Health: “I study viruses and memes in social networks, I am 36, I have no medical diploma. Get me one hundred million rubles for the study of HIV and hepatitis in the real world. ” The Ministry of Health will be put a phone, but Mark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg can be addressed to the Facebook creator: its fund just distributed 47 grants on average of one and a half million dollars for unusual medical studies with the probability of failure “above the usual risk threshold”.

True, there is another important requirement, without which an invitation to come with crazy ideas loses its meaning - the author of such an idea should be a scientist in the classical sense of the word: the proposal does not spread to homeopaths, losopomers and inventors of quantum bioresonance aura rectifiers. But it turned out that in the framework of evidence -based science, unusual ideas are enough with a margin.

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