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    1 year ago

    Drug research is overwhelmingly publicly funded. Private R&D is a PR myth we were fed to justify high prices.

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        No. Those two statements don’t go together like that. They aren’t making big new drugs. At most they are looking for ways to adjust the formula so they can extend patents. There is no amount of profit that makes them willing to do more R&D.