"Wisdom as the ability to make retrospective judgments prospectively." Jonas Salk
Dr. Salk's greatest worry for the future of modern medical research sprang not from the challenge to find cures, as his faith in the ingenuity of the human mind was great, but rather the over-reliance on economic drivers in choosing which research gets funded and which does not - decisions often made without clear understanding of the theoretical merits of a proposed theory - especially true with innovative concepts such as his own immunotherapeutic approach in the treatment of HIV/AIDS first proposed in the late 1980's.
This will surely become a topic of increasing importance given current levels of global economic instability and is a subject of internal research being conducted by the Human Futures Foundation.
