3 ms·

I used to agree with you. Then I realized that drug companies spend more on lawyers than scientists.

• _n_b_ 7y ago
  This isn’t even remotely close to true. 0.67% on legal[1] versus 17% on R&D[2]. [1] https://ccbjournal.com/articles/benchmark-metrics-pharma-companies-indexing-allows-cross-industry-law-department-comp https://ccbjournal.com/articles/benchmark-metrics-pharma-com... [2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060115/how-much-drug-companys-spending-allocated-research-and-development-average.asp https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060115/how-much-dru...
  • FireBeyond 7y ago
    And how much on marketing?
  • sadfklsjlkjwt 7y ago
    You are right of course. My mistake. Marketing is where they spend their money!