Ok, I guess I deserve ad hominem if I hinted at it.
I grew up in Brazil and that makes you more cynical then growing up in California. When you live in a place like that, you learn that just because something sounds good doesn't mean it is.
I'm also a graduate student at MIT working on cancer nanotechnology. When not being provocative online I spent all my hours in lab developing tools for oncologists to detect cancer earlier and treat it better. I have a patent from my undergrad research at Berkeley for a needle-free drug delivery device that is moving through animal trials to hopefully make injections less painful for people (even kids - think of the kids!).
I also spent a ton of time making the MIT Clean Energy Prize into a national organization, to help students across the US get access to capital and mentorship so they can start clean energy companies when they graduate.
While I am quite cynical about many situations in the world, I absolutely reject cynicism here: preventing the deaths of children is good. I don't care how poor their country is, or how likely they are to grow up into poverty. They still have a chance, even if a small chance, to grow up and make something of themselves. No child should ever be left to die because statistics say they will have something we judge to be a "bad" life.
I grew up in Brazil and that makes you more cynical then growing up in California. When you live in a place like that, you learn that just because something sounds good doesn't mean it is.
I'm also a graduate student at MIT working on cancer nanotechnology. When not being provocative online I spent all my hours in lab developing tools for oncologists to detect cancer earlier and treat it better. I have a patent from my undergrad research at Berkeley for a needle-free drug delivery device that is moving through animal trials to hopefully make injections less painful for people (even kids - think of the kids!).
I also spent a ton of time making the MIT Clean Energy Prize into a national organization, to help students across the US get access to capital and mentorship so they can start clean energy companies when they graduate.
Is that altruistic enough for you?