A Billionaire's Cancer Moonshot... This seems to be both the word and concept du jour, whether coming from Patrick Soon-Shiong or Joe Biden or others. Here's another point of view, one that I agree with: Dear Mr. President: Please stop with these science “moonshots”. Science needs steady sustainable boring growth, not flashy ill-formed initiatives. http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/dear-mr-president-please-stop-with-these-science-moonshots/