In connection with this Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, there are some academics and people in the scientific industry who are hostile to the concept of being "useful(役に立つ)." Such an attitude is very unpleasant and depressing.

Researchers who work without the idea of being "useful" = "promoting the welfare of others" will either become narrow-minded nerds or have no shame in speaking out extreme opinions. 

 Why is basic research called "basic" research? This is because there is a world of "applications". 

When we exclude the notion of "useful(役に立つ)'', what we find is not "basic" research but unchecked intellectual decadence.