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Facebook (FB) CEO Zuckerberg Pledges $3 Billion to 'Cure, Prevent or Mange' All Diseases (sic)
The Street ^ | 9/22/2016 | Natalie Walters

Posted on 09/22/2016 10:00:42 AM PDT by RightGeek

Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg will spend $3 billion to fight diseases and make "a better future for our children and generations to come," he wrote in a Facebook post.

Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla will spend $3 billion to fight all diseases through the Chan Zuckberg Inititiave, he announced on Wednesday at an event in San Francisco that was live streamed on Facebook.

The couple has talked to "dozens of top scientists" who think it's possible to "cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of this century," Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. "That doesn't mean no one will ever get sick, but it does mean that we'll get sick a lot less and that when we do, we'll always be able to identify and treat the problem, or at least manage it as a non-harmful condition."

Priscilla, who works as a pediatrician, will help spearhead the efforts, Fox Business' Ashley Webster noted on Thursday morning's "Varney & Company."

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To: Gay State Conservative
I guess the 3 billion is meant to cure mange.ROTFL

I doubt that the cure for mange will come in time for Hillary. Debbie Wassamatter Schultz, being younger, might live to see the cure.

21 posted on 09/22/2016 10:21:31 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: RightGeek

the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Duponts, Windsors et al of the ultra wealthy families won’t like that idea


22 posted on 09/22/2016 10:22:21 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: RightGeek
Addiction to the internet and social media is becoming a recognized ailment.

Will he turn off Facebook??

23 posted on 09/22/2016 10:24:38 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: JimRed

Yeah, but there are an awful lot of shabby looking coyotes running around.


24 posted on 09/22/2016 10:25:46 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: RightGeek
You got to put this in perspective. Zuckerberg’s wife is the principal at 23&ME, which is into massive low cost DNA testing for medical research and genealogy.

If you sign up for 23 & me check on biological relationships, you are quizzed about every disease you or your family has ever had and then they do deep data mining on the results to see if any specific genes are associated with diseases.

This pledge is to help push his wife's company into an international monopoly for medical diagnosis.

25 posted on 09/22/2016 10:26:36 AM PDT by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: RightGeek

Maybe he could check to see if some of the $75 million he gave to San Francisco General is doing any good. The new facility opened in May of 2016, and the technology and conditions there are more reminiscent of the hospital on “The Knick” Cinemax series.


26 posted on 09/22/2016 10:27:29 AM PDT by ssaftler (NFL - Not my Football League anymore.)
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To: mothball

Yes. let’s include a nice secure server too.


27 posted on 09/22/2016 10:40:24 AM PDT by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: RightGeek

Zuckerberg is a Jew who is an atheist. For some reason I find that very contemptible. Maybe it’s that of all the people on Earth, it is the Jewish nation who can most point back toward history and confidently claim that their G-d has been with them, has been faithful to them. To come from that heritage and yet founding one’s life on G-d NOT being there, is a very sad thing.


28 posted on 09/22/2016 10:43:50 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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To: RightGeek

When the Bubble Pops he’ll have nuffin


29 posted on 09/22/2016 11:11:36 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RightGeek

Mange is a disease, isn’t it?.....


30 posted on 09/22/2016 11:19:01 AM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: RightGeek

Thankfully, from the headline, he’s going to make sure everyone has an equal dose of the mange.


31 posted on 09/22/2016 12:08:44 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: RightGeek

Love the headline :)


32 posted on 09/22/2016 12:16:26 PM PDT by Wneighbor (I'm deplorable.)
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To: RightGeek
It really did say "mange" instead of "manage" in the headline?

Well, what do you suspect from the Chan Zuckberg Inititiave (sic)?

I suppose they have CNN's "colleg-educated" people writing for them....

33 posted on 09/22/2016 12:46:25 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
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To: RightGeek

Tax avoidance model. Duh!


34 posted on 09/22/2016 1:37:05 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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