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Kickstarter isn't going to provide the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs to take a drug through the FDA approval process.
by driverdan 15y ago
Kickstarter isn't going to provide the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs to take a drug through the FDA approval process.
- Ralith 15y agoNo? Well, it'll certainly get them closer.
- gwillen 15y agoIf it can get a million dollars for a _video game_, you don't think it could get a hundred million to cure all viral disease? The difficulty, of course, is convincing the donors that the likelihood of success is high; with a video game from a reputable publisher, it's near 1, whereas it's much lower for an experimental drug. But the potential gain is certainly many orders of magnitude greater.