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You notice you are off by a factor 10 and don't pause for a moment but instead immediately go "ok, so"?

• nerfhammer 5y ago
  If it costs a billion dollars to develop a drug and pharma spends 6.5 billion on ads, that would mean an implausibly small number of drugs being developed, no? I don't see any reason to believe that pharma spends more on ads than R&D. Do you?
  • diffeomorphism 5y ago
    > that would mean No. > Do you? The fact that you just reposted your above comment without any change despite knowing it was wrong and despite being called out on that. That seems like a strong point in favor of the opposite of whatever your position is.
  • ABCLAW 5y ago
    Just to chime in; the poster you're replying to is correct regarding your incorrectness related to the relative weighting of R&D vs. Marketing spend. Pull a public filing for these companies and take a look at their balance sheets; it's pretty straight forward.