Exactly, drug research is science and should be treated as such. Other scientific discoveries are not patentable and we don't have problems with lack of scienti

Exactly, drug research is science and should be treated as such. Other scientific discoveries are not patentable and we don't have problems with lack of scientists willing to do their jobs for university salaries. For me the notion that someone can claim a right to a chemical compound that has positive effect on our bodies is absurd. It's like Einstein patenting e=mc^2 and asking nuclear power plants to pay him.