This does not mean however, that one might not embrace projects or obtain results that are important steps in this direction. For example, I have made much of the tension between the current world of infectious disease in which there is a large, and perhaps ever increasing, need for more research, more science, more data bases, more trained personnel and international cooperation on policy implementation, all of which cost money (and involve additional contribution of resources on the part of the state), and the trend under current globalized regimes of neo-liberalism to actually weaken the state, to shrink public spending and to weaken its regulatory hold. Following this logic suggests to me two conclusions.