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Admittedly I don’t have a resource to site. A quick google is easy to find all sorts of ways that the pharma industry has performed with their interests taking
by josho 7y ago
Admittedly I don’t have a resource to site. A quick google is easy to find all sorts of ways that the pharma industry has performed with their interests taking precedence over patients (eg price gouging, selectively publishing research). But, yes it’s proving to be a little hard to find specific details that show the industry prioritizes research that yields long term use drugs over cures.
To counter your point the existence of short term (& high cost) drugs doesn’t contradict that research prioritizes medications that maximize profit not patient lifestyle.
- tptacek 7y agoThat's not evidence. Here's some evidence --- it's not dispositive, but it's more compelling than "this is how it seems like the pharma industry would act based on their other behavior" --- more dollars are spent on research on combating malignant neoplasms than on any other condition, and the most lucrative anti-cancer drugs tend not to be lifetime prescriptions. Both statements are easily confirmed with Google. But it's also not responsive to the original argument, which is that MBAs have directed researchers to discover only mitigations and not cures to disease --- that the industry is actively avoidant of curative discoveries. That's an extraordinary claim.