Earlier in my life, I parroted, "without big profits, drug companies wouldn't innovate." I said this despite having had a rare cancer; and, knowing a lot of cancer researchers. Sure, they like money. But, it's rarely their principal driver. Belief systems are a helluva drug.
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I guess it required a longer thread. It was just a hot take -- ironically provoked by the juxtaposition of your earlier like on something of mine and seeing some basic libertarian explaining why NHS-style system would doom all research progress.
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You could probably speak with richer anecdotes and experiences, but the number of people who entered medical research intent on getting fuck you money is small -- dwarfed by people who just like discovery and those who want to help people.
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I think there are good arguments (and a lot of evidence) in favor of pharma innovation. But, it frequently -- and increasingly -- comes attached with arguments against alternative health insurance structures or against NIH/NSF-style funding or both.
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When people make those arguments, it's ideology scoping acceptable solutions not the quality of those solutions with respect to medical innovation and treatment outcomes. And, when they make those arguments, I think of people like you and the rest of the
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Interesting. I can vouch that the vast vast vast majority of people I meet in industry did not get into it for the money. Sometimes money can corrupt, but not for most. Most of us want to be part of something good and big. There are some who come from the darker camp though.
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Yea. Like, that's the element absent in a lot of analyses -- or, at least, crude prescriptions. Which, to me now...is incredible. Like, there are very few scientific endeavors that (can) translate into such an unalloyed good.
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Er, judging by the comments, to clarify: This wasn't an inditement of pharma or the people who work in pharma. It was expressed exasperation with the people who limit their imaginations to a *really* narrow space that ignores the people doing research.
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