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The author conveniently forgets the farmaceutic industry. There, billions need to be invested to find a drug and thoroughly document it's effects and how to mak
by evandijk70 16y ago
The author conveniently forgets the farmaceutic industry. There, billions need to be invested to find a drug and thoroughly document it's effects and how to make it. The production cost of the drug is only a fraction of the research. This would lead to a very big decrease in the number of new drugs appearing
- ShardPhoenix 16y agoVery few new drugs have appeared in recent times as it is.
- henrikschroder 16y ago...and the pharmaceutic industry also spends more money on marketing and advertising than they do on research. I'm not so sure they would be worse off without IP protection either.