You made this statement quite clear to us all awhile back. We can't just blog for PD, we MUST change the research world to grow in leaps and bounds to change society until the day comes when "bad genes" and all disease causing factors can be eliminated or rendered under control for all time forward. I don't think that your viewpoint is fully apppreciated by all. Swords into medical research; finding cures to the ills of humankind, rather than finding new ways of mass murder (and the inaction to "cure diseases such as cancer, alz, PD 'etc, etc.' is indeed equivalent to mass murder).
Together we stand, and conquer disease; divided we simply fall to the ground one by one. AIDS has created yet another nightmare for humankind to deal with, along with the scores of other diseases that cut the throats of good people every minute. This is a PD board, but your wider view about the wide world of suffering should remind us that we are not the only horrendous disease in the world. Yes we deserve all we can get because we live on and instead of just dying, we linger on to negatively affect all around them. Other diseases aren't so relatively benign.