Well. How many researchers and managers were paid how many 5-to-6-figure salaries over how many years? How much other equipment and raw materials were used or p

Well. How many researchers and managers were paid how many 5-to-6-figure salaries over how many years? How much other equipment and raw materials were used or purchased? What was the chance of success? If the answer is Small or most of it came out of public funding, that's ridiculous. If the answer is Big and that mostly came out of some rich guys' pocket... then the justification is "we want rich guys to gamble on developing medicines for profit, so that over time we accumulate more medicines in the world, especially since patents expire."