This seems to come up alot...... The noble cause of saving lives vs. ego driven, competition minded, corporate america sponsored, ppd pimpery. (I don't know if that's actually a word )

Look, I used ppd as an indicator of the aount of work being done. Since this is only among gpu WUs there are no invalid comparisons going on.
For me it was simple: The slow down down lost more points that the 480 points the WU was worth. I've actually done this a few times (deleted the work folder) , then again, the problem for me seemed to be severe....it would go on all day with no indication it would ever send.
I admit, I am no expert when it comes to F@H....far from it, and there is most likely a better way to accomplish the same thing.

And I do care about curing diseases.... If for nothing else saving my own hide. If anyone is going to develope some sort of spongiform encephalitis / prion disease, its me........with the amount of hamburgers I've eaten in my life...