Moderna Was Mocked Just Like AI Labs Are Now, Thread Reminds Us
GabriCorso · x · 2026-08-22
Responding to mockery of AI labs promising cures for billions in funding, @nalidoust dug up Moderna's early history: a 2015 Nature profile noting only one rodent paper with everything else hidden in patents, an RNA consultant calling it scientifically senseless, and Derek Lowe questioning the $1B+ raised before clinical proof. The thread suggests today's AI labs may be in Moderna's pre-vindication position.
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