While I also bemoan the massive waste of money and talent on actively harmful things like ads, I think fusion is a pretty huge waste of resources as well, at least given our current understanding of the universe and somewhat plausible technologies. Here[0] is an article explaining some fundamental problems that make fusion very unlikely to ever be a good source of energy.
Biomedical research seems like a much more relevant and much more likely to advance rapidly given more investment area of knowledge. Especially since, even if we were given a free energy machine today, we still wouldn't be able to cure the vast majority of human diseases, nor be much closer to even understanding a good proportion of them.
Biomedical research seems like a much more relevant and much more likely to advance rapidly given more investment area of knowledge. Especially since, even if we were given a free energy machine today, we still wouldn't be able to cure the vast majority of human diseases, nor be much closer to even understanding a good proportion of them.
[0] https://thebulletin.org/fusion-energy-nuclear-fusion/