@j_g_allen Did you actually get to ask this question to Fauci? I would love to hear his answer to this.
I would guess the true answer is that such research, while essential to public health, can't be transformed into corporate profits in any obvious way. It's the same reason... /1
I would guess the true answer is that such research, while essential to public health, can't be transformed into corporate profits in any obvious way. It's the same reason... /1
@j_g_allen ...that research on patentable drugs gets funded lavishly while research on behavioral & environmental ways (as well as non-patentable medical remedies) to improve health get virtually no funding. Research comparing the efficacy of expensive new drugs to older, cheap drugs... /2
@j_g_allen ...is vastly underfunded as well because it undermines the profitability of pharma corporations. The underfunding of desperately needed research like your own is a serious problem, but it requires political reform to destroy the overwhelmingly dominant power of... /3
@j_g_allen ...major pharma & medical corporations, who are only interested in profitability, not public health. No amount of educating leaders will change this. Confronting the powerful head-on is our only hope. Until their power is decreased, tinkering around the edges is all we can do.4/4
