I think this conflates spending with results. I dont know enough to confirm or refute, but government science in general is pretty inefficient: yes it does thi

I think this conflates spending with results. I dont know enough to confirm or refute, but government science in general is pretty inefficient: yes it does things that the private sector wouldnt do that are valuable, but it does a lot of other things poorly and expensively. Not to mention that the very state makes researching drugs onerously expensive. It can take a billion dollars to get FDA approval, how is that reasonable.