useful reminder that we have publicly funded and can continue to publicly fund all kinds of useful research and that we absolutely do not need parasitic middlemen like merck interposing themselves into the process in order to hoover up rents
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1445786071531286536
allowing war profiteering, which is what this is, is a policy choice. it's a choice made by people who are very sure that the public sector couldn't possibly do the job, despite all evidence to the contrary
somehow, a mystical transsubstantiation on par with the lockean acquisition of property occurs when something moves into the private sector. it's true, no one can identify what that thing is, but everyone is very sure that it must be doing something!
it is a thing taken utterly for granted in our discourse about "innovation" that whatever it is, it's just a matter of setting up the proper management structure, and that the actual content of the science is entirely secondary or even tertiary to that
the idea that innovation might be something like people actually working to solve difficult problems because those problems need to be solved is completely foreign to the big economist brains that love to tell us about the myriad benefits that only big pharma can provide
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