> Virtually all drugs come out of an NIH-funded lab, but so do a huge number of other drugs and therapies that don't work. The vast majority of things that come out of research labs have no hope at making it past a phase 1 trial.
None of this has anything to do with the fact that the government is footing this bill.
> The drug companies do a lot of R&D to validate the ideas of drug discovery teams and to test for side effects. They spend incredible amounts of money on this, much more than the labs that initially proposed the drug.
Yeah, they do a lot of that... with taxpayer money.
None of this has anything to do with the fact that the government is footing this bill.
> The drug companies do a lot of R&D to validate the ideas of drug discovery teams and to test for side effects. They spend incredible amounts of money on this, much more than the labs that initially proposed the drug.
Yeah, they do a lot of that... with taxpayer money.