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> No new drugs. Pretty simple. I doubt that. There's no reason why the same research couldn't be academic research. Global spending on drugs research is only
by phaemon 10y ago
> No new drugs. Pretty simple.
I doubt that. There's no reason why the same research couldn't be academic research.
Global spending on drugs research is only $77 billion a year. Take the 20 richest countries in the world and that's less than $4 billion a year each. That's less than half the UK's EU rebate.
(EDIT: not enough coffee to add correctly)
- ChrisLTD 10y agoBingo. The private profit motive isn't the only way to get things done. Two of the greatest scientific and engineering feats of the 20th century, the atom bomb and landing on the moon, were both government run and funded.
- icebraining 10y agoNot sure if the war motive is much better than the profit motive, though.
- ChrisLTD 10y agoTo stretch the analogy, lives are being threatened in war as they are also threatened by medical illness.