The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective

Re:The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective by gowld on Friday July 27, 2018 @09:38PM (#17630987)

Nice idea. Why don't single-payer healthcare systems (the ones who are already enlightened, compared to the backward USA, right?) fund that research today?

If pharma geniuses couldn't make a fortune in pharma, would they work for the government on the Federal wage scale, or would they go to coding bootcamp (which they could easily thrive at, based on the biochem->coding converts I know) and go work for Facebook?

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Re:The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective by ceejayoz on Friday July 27, 2018 @09:45PM (#17631009)

> Nice idea. Why don't single-payer healthcare systems (the ones who are already enlightened, compared to the backward USA, right?) fund that research today?

They (and even our multi-payer system) already do. See: Public universities, NIH grants, etc.

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Re:The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective by refurb on Saturday July 28, 2018 @12:55AM (#17631617)

Those two sources pay for a fraction of what goes into R&D at private companies.

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Re:The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective by 34k5uoi5ui on Friday July 27, 2018 @09:55PM (#17631043)

because some people want to save lives, rather then enslaving them. If you think working at facebook is the pinnacle of human achievement, I respectfully request you consider where we are, and how many humans around you are suffering.

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Re:The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective by darawk on Saturday July 28, 2018 @02:33AM (#17631901)

Then why are those people working at for-profit pharma companies? They can go start a non-profit one right now. They could do research.

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