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Grants and government funding, mostly. But then companies get patent monopolies on production because… reasons.



Yes, I do take issue with the government granting monopolies to private entities with taxpayer funded research. But not all of the funding for all the treatments I mentioned, which are clearly cures and not meant to bleed people until they die, came from government.

Sometimes the pendulum swings too far towards cynicism.


That’s not true in the least. It’s mostly private investment.


Please do share the numbers backing up your naked statement.




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