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i don’t know whether I should laugh or feel somewhat worried.
You forgot Army Research on the right end…
thats a whole new graph
[x-axis] comment in 4…3…2…
This might be funny if there was a mote of truth to it, but it’s completely wrong.
indeed… most commercial product research is done solely by the companies itself… Government run research would never waste time on things such as the internet or TV unless there was a serious concern attached.
ya the most is probably H1N1 right now cause the governments gross over reaction to it
That’s absolutely right. Lots of things on here are funny, but all of those do have at least a little reality to them.
LOL, I’m sorry… 5 MILLION dollars? Is that supposed to be a lot? So only like $200,000 goes to cancer research? Try a few billion, buddy.
It felt like I was watching Austin Powers. 5 million dollars…hahahaha.(places pinky by mouth)
Total WIN comment!
You win at everything forever! Because your a Kenyan and you run like a Kenyan and Kenyans are fast like a Cheetah!
Maybe he was talking about a city’s budget? lol
Perhaps he was saying for every $200,000 in cancer research they drop $5 million in the other?
Either that or he has the money skills of Rain Man.
“How much is a TV, Raymond?”
“Hundred dollars.”
laaaaaaaaaaaaame…and above all untrue…
I think this graph should be on failblog. Wrong idea, bad joke, poor execution. – 1,000,000 points.
The sad thing is this kind of fail isn’t uncommon. I saw Lewis Black ranting the other day that if Apple can give him porn anywhere he wants on his iPhone, we should have cured cancer by now.
Um, explain to me how Black’s rant is a fail?
What he’s trying to say is our priorities in this society are COMPLETELY F-ED UP!
Lewis Black = EPIC WIN
More like complete fail. Society cannot stop advancement in some areas just because other MORE COMPLEX areas are not making as much progress. That would be completely and totally retarded.
Curing cancer will be yet another nail in the coffin for human kind anyway. Already overpopulated. Take away one more population control and watch it all crumble.
Unless “search for alien life” is a euthamism for viagra, then not even fixing the numbers could save this chart.
Yeah I felt that “Erectile Dysfunction” should’ve been right there with the last stupidly vague column.
Here’s an idea: when you’re dealing with real-life phenomena, even as a joke, try to make your numbers somewhat in the ballpark. It would really help the humor value (on second thought, maybe in this case,there was no humor value to begin with).
This is the most accurate graph ever made.
I think you forgot the “in” prefix on the word “accurate” in your comment.
>>> Unless “search for alien life” is a euthamism for viagra
Even that doesn’t work. Viagra is already on the market.
>>> The sad thing is this kind of fail isn’t uncommon. I saw
>>> Lewis Black ranting the other day that if Apple can give him
>>> porn anywhere he wants on his iPhone, we should have cured
>>> cancer by now.
He really thinks sending a picture over a digital link to a phone is harder than unraveling the biomechanical mystery of cancer? As neat as it may be, sending that porn is really just a gussied up version of a telegraph.
Is he referring to carcinomas, sarcomas, lymphomas, blastomas or germ cell types of cancer?
/pats X on the head for and congratulates him for showing all of us he has a big brain.
Dude…
its just a graph. and using big words doesn’t make you seem much more correct.
“euphemism”
Yeah, complete lack of knowledge about subject you are graphing? FAIL.
There are plenty of FAIL graphs, but this one doesn’t even start.
The author is a joke.
Too bad the chart isn’t one as well.
you win the internets for EVAR
Social studies, such as those detailing internet usage related to some social ill, are fairly cheap and simple to perform.
A SINGLE lab involved in cancer research has a budget often in the millionsn per year. Multiply it through every lab in the country and it’s well into the billions per year in the US.
However, the Media doesn’t find little bottles full of cultured cancer cells nearly as exciting as studies relating internet use to weight or political skew or whatever.
In conclusion: multiply Y-axis by about 1000x, and reverse the X-axis completely, and you get reality, though the “gadgets” should be higher. Or, continue to view this graph and enjoy your little media-skew bubble
So, what you’re telling me is that you have no idea where research dollars are actually going. Got it.
What about the fraud that is global warming? Where is it on this graph?
That’s only funded by Republicans. Now the actual science showing that global warming is a fact and research with the goal of reducing global warming, that’s in the single billions.
I’m sorry, Mr. beck. You’re 30 minutes on the community Internet Machine is over. Please go back to your heavily-fortified room and await Armageddon.
Congress stopped funding Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence several years ago.
In terms of knowing wtf you’re talking about, this is made of FAIL. Go back to 4chan.
We really should’ve found the cure for cancer years ago.
According to my conservative Christian mother, “cancer will be cured when the Rapture arrives, dear.”
REPUBLICANS FTW!!!
Shouldn’t this be on fail blog, not GraphJam?
What’s dumb is that you can easily find out exactly what the government is funding. Go to grants.gov. If there is a grant for it, it’s there.
“There’s a grant for that!”
Meh…doesn’t sound as hip.
Just my school does $4million of research per year
A chunk of that whopping $5 million has gone to waste when the author has already given them the answer: They affect people at least to the point of not knowing subject-verb agreement.
a 3rd grader definitely made this
This graph is not in millions of dollars. It’s in millions of budgets.
This fails so hard it almost wins.
a million dollar study which finds out people like sex
If this graph were titled “Media coverage of research” it would be more accurate. (though boring)
As it is, it fails.
Wait wait, you posted this graph on the wrong site. Put your picture next to the graph and post it on FailBlog. Kthx.
This was a remarkably dumb graph. If you’re trying to diminish the importance of researching effects of TV & Internet, it doesn’t take away manpower from researching cancer… It’ll just be social scientists working on the TV & Internet problem. Social scientists can’t/aren’t interested in finding the cure for cancer.
Bury this graph plz -.-
NASA received $17 billion last year. Not that all of its budget is spent on search for aliens, but it can be assumed that at least $1-2 billion was devoted to that search. Also, I get the feeling that this person thinks the search for extraterrestrial life is a waste by placing it higher than cancer research. Yet they don’t place the $600 billion budget of the military, which does create jobs but is significantly more expensive than the whole NASA program, which generates about 7 dollars for every 1 dollar invested in space research.
Speaking as a researcher, this chart should be relabeled as “Science the Media Will Report.” Cancer research is huge, with lots of money spent on DNA repair, gene expression, apoptosis (programmed cell death), etc. The categories on the graph are almost completely backwards in height.
But it’s Graphjam and not supposed to be serious, I know. Just thought I’m say something.
Yeah, it really is backwards.
Not to be as absurdly geeky as this will sound, but the budget for looking for alien life wouldn’t even register on this chart. It gets a lot of publicity because it captures the imagination, but gets pretty much no funding.
Shouldn’t the biggest one be “finding ways to cover up data contradictory to man-made global warming”?
Mr. Limbaugh, your time on the Interwebz is over now. Please go back to building your Liberal Death Ray.
I shall refer everyone talking about global warming in here to the second graph on the following page: http://graphjam.com/2009/11/19/funny-graphs-end-world/
I’ll talk to you again in July.
You forgot viagra and other sex-related performance/size-enhancing drugs. They must be working on those constantly because I always get emails about it.
I was just about to say that! The amount of time and money that drug companies spend on trying to give old dudes boners is insane!
As a Liberal Arts Person actually in the field of media research, let me assure you that research on “how much Internet and TV affects people” is not nearly as well-funded as the author seems to think. Tania is right, it is backward.
Tsk, they don’t pay for media research. That’s what mass communication grad students are for.
As a social science grad student studying the effects of internet media… I really, really hope so.
I think the top 2 would be baldness cures and cures for erectile dysfunction.