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ETC: Nano-medicine will be bad for the poor

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Posted: Nov 1, 2006

Governments should spend money on mosquito nets and condoms not nanomedical performance enhancements that will only benefit the rich. Up next, governments should spend money on pencils instead of $100 laptops, and pencillin instead of antiretroviral drugs for HIV....

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