There's an enormous amount of money sloshing around the industry right now and some significant sliver of it is being allocated to real research. Stuff that we are not going to hear about because it's actually research. One of those tiny lab teams may well produce something truly revolutionary
@glyph Once had a friend whose *entirely valid* x-ray crystallography research was funded in part by convincing a new age crystal healing company that x-ray crystallography would help them sell more healing crystals.
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