Biomedical sciences are pretty bad in general. There are truly tough problems but I also think that industry is way too intertwined with academia right now, whi

Biomedical sciences are pretty bad in general. There are truly tough problems but I also think that industry is way too intertwined with academia right now, which causes cascading effects and perhaps parts of the cultural rot to spread. Obviously the economic incentives/legal concerns you've described are a different story, but the initial mistake you've mentioned that enabled the whole scenario I'm guessing is part of a larger pattern with the quality of pharma research.