On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Erik Reuter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:23:58PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
>
> > Drugs are a classic example of this. Once a drug has passed clinical
> > trials, the cost of copying is much smaller than the cost of
> > development. Further, there's no risk in copying.
>
> Is there risk in searching for cancer cures? I suppose NIH doesn't take
> any risks with their billions of $$ spent ?
NIH is funded by the government, it is *not* a corporation. (And they
had a decent pension plan awhile back, don't know what it's like now.)
Maybe the US government should be involved in drug research, then?
Because either a corporation is doing the research or the government is.
(If there's another alternative I'm overlooking, please mention it.)
And they've been involved in trying to find cancer cures for a good number
of years -- I remember stories about my grandmother dealing with rats in
the 1950s -- and they haven't come up with much of a *cure* yet. They do
know more about cancer, though.
Julia
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