> I sincerely doubt that science is exploited to a similar degree as basically any others. The world being shitty in other ways does not diminish the tragedy t

> I sincerely doubt that science is exploited to a similar degree as basically any others. The world being shitty in other ways does not diminish the tragedy that we are only a fraction of how effective we could be at pursuing science. > Can you back up your “many” with actual numbers as a percentage of investment? "A 2011 analysis by researchers with pharmaceutical company Bayer found that, at most, a quarter of Bayer's in-house findings replicated the original results." "In a 2012 paper, C. Glenn Begley, a biotech consultant working at Amgen, and Lee Ellis, a medical researcher at the University of Texas, found that only 11% of 53 pre-clinical cancer studies had replications that could confirm conclusions from the original studies" "The ... paper examined the reproducibility rates and effect sizes by journal and discipline. Study replication rates were 23% for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48% for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and 38% for Psychological Science" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis > I don’t really accept these ridiculous trumpisms. “Many people are saying”. I didn't say "many people are saying", and comparing me to Trump is a much greater insult than things comments get flagged and removed for. Respond to what I actually said and avoid the (extreme) personal insults.