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By your logic no one could make money selling Vitamin C. Also, the article talked about the benefits of consuming lithium at a tiny fraction of the therapeutic
by ConceptJunkie 12y ago
By your logic no one could make money selling Vitamin C.
Also, the article talked about the benefits of consuming lithium at a tiny fraction of the therapeutic level. There are plenty of legal, common supplements that are similarly toxic if consumed in those amounts.
- gwern 12y ago> By your logic no one could make money selling Vitamin C. One can make money selling vitamin C - after someone (such as the government) has spent a lot of money running experiments and publishing the results, yielding a public good of the knowledge 'vitamin C may be good for some things'. One will have a much more difficult time making money by investing in research establishing 'substance X is good for something', publishing that information, and then selling substance X - when substance X is cheap, widely available, and one's competitors will instantly match and undercut any of your offerings of X.