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No amount of money will discover long term effects in the short term.

• rzzzt 6y ago
  A counterexample from a non-biological domain would be accelerated aging tests of electronic equipment. Could there be any similar approach that aims to do this in pharma testing?
  • rightbyte 6y ago
    You can maybe give higher doses or look really carefully for early signs of something being wrong? But I guess you can't do it as accurately as accelerated aging tests in eg. mechanics.
  • kube-system 6y ago
    The project management triad doesn’t tell you what is scientifically possible — it tells you what is economically impossible. Adding money won’t shorten the timeframe here, but shortening the timeframe adds potential risks (and risk=dollars)
• kube-system 6y ago
  The project management triad is a spectrum, not three boolean values, and not all of the areas of the triangle are necessarily within the bounds possible choices. (For example, consider how many bids you might expect on a project with a budget of zero) Marginally speaking, governments are demanding this vaccine at same/lower prices and more accelerated timeline. AZ reasonably sees an associated rise in risk with this, which at the end of the day, is a cost for them.