Anno domini 2021 Fri, 26 Nov 15:33:11 -0500
Ken Dibble scripsit:
> On 11/26/21 1:57 PM, dng@??? wrote:
> > On 26-11-2021 17:27, golinux@??? wrote:
> >> On 2021-11-26 05:08, Peter Duffy wrote:
> >>> It's a bit like the charlatans and fake doctors in past centuries.
> >>> They'd invent an illness, and then claim to have a remedy for it:
> >>>
> >>> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marthambles
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> LOL! Isn't that exactly what big pharma is still doing with direct
> >> marketing to consumers of their latest "cure" for a newly discovered
> >> "disease"?
> >>
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> > Well, big pharma does do some research and sometimes come with new and
> > useful medication. But it is true that they spend more on marketing
> > than on research.
> >
> > Grtz
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> I am not trying to create problems of any type.  I would honestly like
> the source of the claim that big pharma spends more on marketing than on
> research, before I repeat it, and am left without a defense.

5% R&D, 45% Marketing, 50% profit - at least these were the last published numbers. Sorry, I just have a source in german:
https://www.amazon.de/Lizenz-Pl%C3%BCndern-multilaterale-Abkommen-Investitionen/dp/3434530177

This book ist not the newest, but it has valid numbers. And both authors have quite a name :)

Nik

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