The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain

Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by dv_dt on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:40PM (#15100532)

Drug makers spend more in marketing than R&D, and I strongly suspect that most of their marketing dollars are spent in the US. So all we're really subsidising is more marketing to doctors via our high cost health care system.

http://www.randalolson.com/2015/03/01/design-critique-puttin...

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by amag on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:29PM (#15102403)

This was very apparent to me when recently on a visit in the US. There were a lot more TV commercials for different kinds of drugs than I'm used to. Ironically the required(?) list of potential side effects at the end of each ad often sounded worse than the condition the drug was supposed to treat in the first place.

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by refurb on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:44PM (#15103151)

Drug makers spend more in marketing than R&D

Absolutely untrue. It's amazing how this "fact" continues to be shared even when shown to be false.

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by dv_dt on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:51PM (#15103189)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_marketing

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheet...

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by aioprisan on Friday August 25, 2017 @10:44PM (#15103773)

A simple search would have saved you some embarrassment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...

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Re:The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain by refurb on Saturday August 26, 2017 @01:11PM (#15106310)

I knew you'd reference that study, it is really poorly done. Lumping all SG&A into "marketing" is wrong.

SG&A is a catch all. It included things like staplers, secretaries, etc. it's not purely marketing.

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