HIV vaccine a reality!

[kandrathe]

We can be proud of the research but we and (more importantly) our children still have to (try to) live with the legacy of the headlong rush to do it better that created that chemical soup. I am feeling less and less sanguine about our chances.

:nod: I most heartily agree. As a society, we are still out of control with inputs and outputs. The same lack of foresight that clear cut the forests, and strip mined the foothills are evident in the actions of yesterday, and today. Regulations will always lag, and be too little applied too late well after the rape is over. So, yes, I'm optimistic of the technologies, but then again, also just as sanguine about the realities of the expressions of wretched excess of our generation. The only solution I can see would be to make the citizens jointly responsible for every polluted area and responsible for the cleanup, whereas, they would then care enough to hold the *real* culprits accountable for the messes that are made in their own back yards.