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The problem with pharma development is not the lack of ideas. The majority of those are solely popular because they're free, or heavily subsidized. That's not
by Jasper_ 6y ago
The problem with pharma development is not the lack of ideas.
The majority of those are solely popular because they're free, or heavily subsidized. That's not a viable economic model for doing lots of intense, focused development, and a lot of those above projects lack people doing "boring work", or are subsidized by companies relying on closed-source and patented work to fund the boring stuff.
- sithadmin 6y agoThere's also minimal ethical/moral hazard associated with the projects cited. Pharma trials mean that some nonzero proportion of the study populations will subjected to side effects, some of which may be permanent and debilitating. Some study participants may even die as the result of an adverse event. This is a major disincentive to development that the opensource projects cited never have to face.