>Bullshit... marketing budgets outstrip research, development and manufacturing all by very large margins... in most big pharma companies it's over 80-90% of th

>Bullshit... marketing budgets outstrip research, development and manufacturing all by very large margins... in most big pharma companies it's over 80-90% of the budget. I was pretty skeptical of this claim being true so I had to do a quick internet search. I'm surprised to find there was some truth to the first half of the comment but the second claim appears to be wrong. [1] [1] http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16472/do-typical-modern-pharmaceutical-firms-spend-more-on-marketing-than-on-rd http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16472/do-typical...