What good things have ever come out of the Ivy League (hexbear.net)

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Genuine question. I was listening to shit about Facebook and made me think how much damage Harvard has done to the world just from that alone.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

This got me into researching Jonas Salk (the inventor of the polio vaccine).

I know he didn't want to patent it, but apparently his employer attempted to (Pittsburgh school of Medicine) and the patent attorney they retained shot it down.

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